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The "Sundays at 2" recital series coordinated by the department of music at Hope College will feature the duo of violinst Gao Can and pianist Eubyol Ko on Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The major works on the program include the "Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major," by Maurice Ravel, and the "D Minor Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49," by Felix Mendelssohn. The duo will be joined by Grand Rapids Symphony cellist, Alicia Eppinga, for a trio.
"We are incredibly excited to have this duo performing at Hope College," said Dr. Adam Clark, assistant professor of music. "They are each world-class musicians and bring such brilliance and life to whatever they play. This will certainly be a performance not to miss."
Gao Can won the grand prize in China's National Violin Competition in 2006; was presented the Special Recognition Award by Michael Hill at the International Violin Competition 2007; was the second prize and Special Award winner of the 2008 Naples "Alberto Curci" International Violin Competition; and was granted the Highest Violin Award in the 2009 Ima Hogg International Young Artist's Competition.
Gao is a member of the violin faculty at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and is a guest violin faculty at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Professor Kurt Sassmannshaus and the late Professor Lin Yaoji.
As a soloist with major orchestras, Gao has made appearances with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, St. Carlo Opera Orchestra and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra among others. He has performed under the baton of renowned Chinese conductors such as Huang Xiao Tong, Zheng Xiao Ying, Yong Yan Hu and Shi Shu Cheng. Gao is a frequent participant and invited performer at music festivals around the world. He has been a part of the Salzburg Music Festival, Beethoven Music Festival, Tong Yeong International Festival in Korea and Morning-side Music Bridge Academy of Canada.
In 2009, Gao completed a solo violin recital recording to be released by Tiantian featuring work by Guiseppe Tartini, W.A. Mozart, Cesar Franck and Li Zi Li. Gao can also be heard in the soundtrack of French film "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress," which won "Best Movie Soundtrack" in the Canadian Film Festival in 2002. Also, Gao's playing in the album "Dance of Cigarette" was selected by the Chinese Olympic Committee as part of the musical presentation in the closing ceremony of the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
A native of South Korea, Dr. Eunbyol Ko is an assistant professor of piano at Morehead State University. She maintains an active international performing career as a soloist chamber musician, and concerto soloist. She has performed in Canada, Austria, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, South Korea and throughout the United States, and has appeared with orchestras including the Kyungwon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Queen City Chamber Orchestra and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. Her performances have been televised and broadcast nationally on MBC in Korea as well as Waterloo's KCFP in Canada.
Prior to joining Morehead State University Ko was on the faculty at Austin Peay State University, as well as the Secondary Piano and Preparatory departments at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. She is an active member of the Music Teachers National Association, and has presented at conferences both locally and nationally.
Ko's competition honors include first prizes in the South Korea National Piano Competition, the Eum-Yeon competition in South Korea, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's Chamber Music Competition. She was also a prize winner in the Kankakee Young Artists Concerto Competition, the International Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, and the American Protégé International Piano Competition in New York.
Ko holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a master's degree in piano from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and a bachelor's degree in piano from Kyungwon University in Korea. Her former teachers include Soo-Jung Shin, Shigeo Neriki, Eugene Pridonoff and James Tocco.
Alicia Eppinga has been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony since 1989, and was appointed assistant principal cello in 1990. She was raised in Grand Haven, and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy from 1980 to 1983. She received her bachelor's degree in music performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of Richard Kapuscinski, and her Master in Music degree at the Eastman School of Music with Steven Doane. Since arriving in Grand Rapids, Eppinga has been a frequent performer in solo and chamber music concerts. Her quintet, Supernova, performs educational programs in the Grand Rapids area schools. She is also a member of Ensemble Montage, a group of musicians dedicated to bringing unique and contemporary chamber music to West Michigan.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Entertainer Pai Ping-ping (白冰冰), a national policy advisor to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), has been accused of pocketing a NT$25.35 million (US$868,150) government subsidy intended for producing TV variety shows casting veteran entertainers.
A group of veteran entertainers on Tuesday made public their allegation, accusing Pai of diverting most of the sum for producing the variety show Ha Ha Laughing Every Day (天天哈哈笑) into her own pockets.
Pai denied the accusation, saying she received only NT$9 million in subsidies in 2010 from the then-Government Information Office (GIO).
She added that she had put in more than NT$20 million of her own money to produce the shows.
However, her denial met with further accusations from a veteran entertainer who uses the stage name Betty (貝蒂), who on Wednesday accused Pai of lying.
To back her claim, Betty showed GIO documents which suggested the show's production company in the second season of 2010 received NT$5.85 million from the GIO as the first installment of the subsidy.
The GIO allotted another NT$19.50 million to the production company for the fourth season, totaling the amount of the subsidy at NT$25.35 million, Betty cited the GIO documents as saying.
"The documents showed very clearly that NT$25.35 million went to Pai's production company," Betty said. "She is lying to everyone. If she only received NT$9 million, where is the remaining NT$16.35 million?"
"This subsidy was intended to support veteran entertainers. If she did not use the money for that purpose, then it's a legal problem. This is very serious. We demand that Minister of Culture Lung Ying-tai (龍應台) audit the accounting and find where the money went," she added.
In response, Pai again denied the allegations.
"I swear on my life, I only received NT$9 milliion [in subsidies]. If someone has evidence [of me receiving more money], then show it to everyone," she said.
Appearing unconvinced by Pai's denial, veteran entertainer Kuo Mei-chu (郭美珠) said: "Pai has in the past vilified [former premier] Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) with the spiteful denunciation that 'You are not a good person, nor a bad person, you are not a human being at all (你不是好人, 也不是壞人, 你根本不是人).' Now I want give these words back to her."
Kuo was referring to remarks made by Pai in 1997 in which Hsieh earned Pai's unrelenting hatred for having then served as a negotiator during a siege by Chen Chin-hsing (陳進興), the murderer of Pai's daughter, at the then-South African military attache's house.
"Pai is a greedy money-grubber," Kuo said. "In her eyes, only money matters. She used to support the pan-green camp, but she found out that by supporting the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) she can ride the gravy train to get plenty of financial benefits, so she switched her alliance to the KMT."
"Pai once told me: 'You go ask [the Democratic Progressive Party's 2012 presidential candidate] Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to give me NT$200 million. Then I will change my support to the pan-green camp,'" Kuo added.
When reached for comment on Kuo's remarks, Pai's assistant said she would not make any response.
The 120-episodes of Ha Ha Laughing Every Day were broadcast on weekdays at noon, starting on June 14, 2010, and ended on Nov. 29 the same year.
When the show was terminated, Pai initially said it was because the production had already exceeded the NT$20 million cost and that the GIO had no further subsidy for it.


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== USB Autosuspend ==
== USB Autosuspend ==
To enable USB autosuspend after 2 seconds of inactivity:
To enable USB autosuspend after 2 seconds of inactivity:
== Device Power Management ==
== Device Power Management ==
Revision as of 21:52, 23 November 2012
This article covers the configuration needed to turn on power saving features. Almost all of the features listed here are worth using whether or not the computer is on AC or battery power. Most have negligible performance impact and are just not enabled by default because of commonly broken hardware/drivers. Reducing power usage means reducing heat, which can even lead to higher performance on a modern Intel or AMD CPU, thanks to dynamic overclocking.
- 1 Audio
- 2 Active State Power Management
- 3 Bluetooth
- 4 Disabling NMI watchdog
- 5 Disabling Wake-on-LAN
- 6 PCI Runtime Power Management
- 7 Wireless power saving
- 8 Writeback Time
- 9 Laptop Mode
- 10 SATA Active Link Powermanagement
- 11 USB Autosuspend
- 12 Device Power Management
- 13 View Power Setings
- 14 See also
By default, audio power saving is turned off by most drivers. It can be enabled by setting the power_save parameter to a time (in seconds) to go in idle.
- Intel
options snd_hda_intel power_save=1
- ac97
options snd_ac97_codec power_save=1
Active State Power Management
To verify that ASPM is enabled:
$ cat /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy
[default] performance powersave
[default] or
[powersave] means you do not need to force it on.
Otherwise, it's either unsupported/broken on your hardware, or has to be forced on with
pcie_aspm=force on the kernel line.
Blacklist the
hci_usb module if the driver is loaded automatically.
Disabling NMI watchdog
The NMI watchdog is a debugging feature to catch hardware hangs and cause a kernel panic. On some systems it can generate a lot of interrupts, causing a noticeable increase in power usage.
kernel.nmi_watchdog = 0
or add
nmi_watchdog as a kernel parameter to disable it completely from early boot.
Disabling Wake-on-LAN
Wake-on-LAN can be a useful feature, but if you're not making use of it then it's simply draining extra power waiting for a magic packet while in suspend.
Disabling for one interface:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="net0" RUN+="/usr/sbin/ethtool -s net0 wol d"
Disabling for all interfaces:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="eth*" RUN+="/usr/sbin/ethtool -s %k wol d"
PCI Runtime Power Management
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
Wireless power saving
Enabling for a specific interface:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="wifi0" RUN+="/usr/sbin/iw dev wifi0 set power_save on"
Enabling for all interfaces:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="wlan*" RUN+="/usr/sbin/iw dev %k set power_save on"
Writeback Time
Increasing the VM dirty writeback time can help to aggregate I/O together - reducing disk writes, and decreasing power usage:
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1500
To do the same for journal commits with ext4 and some other filesystems, use
commit=15 as a parameter in fstab or with the
rootflags kernel parameter.
Laptop Mode
vm.laptop_mode = 5
SATA Active Link Powermanagement
SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_host", KERNEL=="host*", ATTR{link_power_management_policy}="min_power"
USB Autosuspend
To enable USB autosuspend after 2 seconds of inactivity:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", TEST=="power/control" ATTR{power/control}="auto" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", TEST=="power/autosuspend" ATTR{power/autosuspend}="2"
Device Power Management
echo auto | tee /sys/bus/i2c/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null echo auto | tee /sys/bus/spi/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null
View Power Setings
This function shows various power settings. Note you either must be root or you must have sudo.
function aa_power_settings () { sudo bash -c ' for i in `find /sys/devices -name "bMaxPower"`; do for ii in `find $i -type f`; do bd=`dirname $ii`; busnum=`cat $bd/busnum`; devnum=`cat $bd/devnum`; title=`lsusb -s $busnum:$devnum`; echo -e "\n\n+++ $title\n -$bd\n -$ii"; for ff in `find $bd/power -type f ! -empty 2>/dev/null`; do v=`cat $ff 2>/dev/null|tr -d "\n"`; [[ ${#v} -gt 0 ]] && echo -e " `basename $ff`=$v"; v=; done | sort -g; done; done; echo -e "\n\n\n+++ Kernel Modules\n"; for m in `command lspci -k|sed -n "/in use:/s,^.*: ,,p"|sort -u`; do echo "+ $m"; systool -v -m $m 2> /dev/null | sed -n "/Parameters:/,/^$/p"; done '; }


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In a post on its Facebook page, Central Bar in Carrick offered assistance to people living alone and homeless people in the area.
Robert McClenaghan, whose shift starts today at 4pm, said: "If you live alone and are a little bit apprehensive come down to the bar we will sit it out together, if your electric goes out and you need hot water for babies or the kids come down and I will supply tea and coffee free.
"If you are homeless in the area at this time our doors are open for shelter and heat no questions asked.
"If you get caught in it and can't get home use us as a safe point we will try and get you home.
"I will stay all night if need be, but above all be safe, it may amount to nothing but better being prepared.


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|Instrument: VIRS : TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner
Instrument Category:
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments
Instrument Class: Passive Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument Subtype: Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers
Associated Platforms
Spectral/Frequency Information
Wavelength Keyword: Visible
Spectral/Frequency Resolution: 0.63 micrometers
Wavelength Keyword: Infrared > Reflected
Spectral/Frequency Resolution: 1.6 micrometers
Wavelength Keyword: Infrared > Thermal
Spectral/Frequency Coverage/Range: 3.75 to 12 micrometers
Related Data Sets
View all records related to this instrument
VIRS is one of the three instruments in the rain-measuring package on TRMM and provides a very indirect indicator of rainfall. It also ties TRMM measurements to other measurements that are made routinely using the meteorological Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (POESS) and those that are made using the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) operated by the United States.
VIRS senses radiation coming from Earth in five spectral regions, ranging from visible to infrared, at wavelengths of 0.63 to 12 micrometers. VIRS is included in the primary instrument package on TRMM because of its ability to delineate rainfall, but even more importantly, because it serves as a transfer standard to other measurements that are made routinely using the POESS and GOES satellites. The intensity of the radiation in the various spectral regions (or bands) can be used to determine the reflectance (visible and near infrared) or brightness temperature (infrared) of the scene.
If the sky is clear, the temperature will correspond to that of the surface of Earth, and, if there are clouds, the temperature will tend to be that of the cloud tops. Colder temperatures will produce greater intensities in the shorter wavelength bands, and warmer temperatures will produce greater intensities in the longer wavelength bands. Since colder clouds occur at higher altitudes the measured temperatures are useful as indicators of cloud heights, and the highest clouds can be associated with the presence of rain. A variety of techniques use the infrared (IR) images from VIRS to estimate precipitation. Higher cloud tops are positively correlated with precipitation for convective clouds (generally thunderstorms), which dominate tropical (and therefore global) precipitation accumulations. One notable exception to this correlation is with the high cirrus clouds that generally flow out of thunderstorms. These cirrus clouds are high and therefore cold in the infrared observations, but they do not rain. To differentiate these cirrus clouds from water clouds (cumulonimbus), a technique, which involves comparing the two infrared channels at 10.8 and 12.0 micrometers, is employed. However, IR techniques usually have significant errors for instantaneous rainfall estimates. The strength of infrared observations lies in the ability to monitor the clouds continuously from Geostationary altitude. By comparing the visible and infrared observations from TRMM with the rainfall estimates of TMI and PR, scientists hope to learn much more about the relationship of the cloud tops as seen from Geostationary orbit.
NASA Earth Science Reference Handbook [ Mission: TRMM ]
Online Resources
Instrument Logistics
Data Rate: 49.8 Kbps (day), 28.8 Kbps (night)
Instrument Start Date: 1997-12-20
Instrument Owner: USA/NASA


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- Last year%2C 19 states enacted 43 measures to limit abortion access.
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Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, a milestone for women in America because this right to control our capacity to reproduce enhances our ability to participate fully in society. It helps ensure our privacy, our dignity and our health.
GREEN:'Roe' turns 40
On this 40th anniversary, it is appropriate to ask whether the promise of Roe v. Wade has been fulfilled. Have women's liberty and equality progressed as far as we hoped it would since Jan. 22, 1973?
Clearly, there have been some great strides forward. During the 2012 elections, women made their voices heard. In almost every instance where women's reproductive rights were on the ballot, freedom prevailed. This month, a record number of women were sworn into the 113th Congress. Indeed, some might view the successes of 2012 as a sign of continually emerging equality, and solid and lasting protection against discrimination and political harassment. They would be wrong.
Controlling your choices
Last year, 19 states enacted 43 measures to limit abortion access. This was in addition to the 92 abortion restrictions enacted in 24 states in 2011. Twenty states restricted abortion coverage through the state health insurance exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act.
Funding for reproductive health services in non-state-operated clinics, such as Planned Parenthood, came under attack at the state and federal level. Currently, contraception can be barred from employer-based insurance coverage in eight states, and abstinence-only education remains the norm in most of our country.
This fight against contraception reveals the hypocrisy of the anti-abortion groups: Their concern isn't protecting the unborn fetus; it's about controlling women's choices.
Consider rape. The sheer volume of rape and sexual assault is indicative of the negative attitudes toward women that permeate society. A rape case in Steubenville, Ohio, sparked a wave of repudiation. But the blaming, shaming and judgment directed toward the victims of these horrific crimes remains a key component of the dialogue.
Still much to do
Technically, the core protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade remain intact. However, those protections are eroding because of the constant onslaught by conservatives bent on undermining the rights of women. The goal of Roe v. Wade was to ensure a woman's right to control the most intimate aspect of her life. Without this right, women are unable to participate equally with men in the nation's social, political and economic life.
The road ahead remains difficult. Our health, financial security and personal safety are constantly challenged, compromised and limited. As we reflect on these past 40 years, let us celebrate the extraordinary steps we have taken to move our country toward equality. But let us also understand that hard work and vigilance are needed now, more than ever, in the fight for women's equality and justice.
The goal of Roe v. Wade has not been achieved, but on this anniversary it is essential that it also not be forgotten.
Kate Michelman, president emerita of NARAL Pro-Choice America, is author of With Liberty and Justice for All. Carol Tracy is executive director of the Women's Law Project.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors .


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Newton Police Department
• Karen F. Doonan, 30, of Newton was cited for following a vehicle too close after striking another vehicle at a stoplight in the 300 block of First Avenue East at 5:41 p.m. Tuesday. Doonan and Alex Jackson Bare, 16, of Newton were traveling east. Doonan said she thought the light had changed and rear-ended Bare's vehicle. An officer estimated the damage to Doonan's vehicle at $100 and Bare's at $800. No injuries occurred, and both vehicles were driven from the scene.
• Cody L. Kessler, 25, of Newton was charged with second-degree theft on Wednesday in connection with a report of stolen property on May 10 at 1750 W. Fourth St. N. Police asked Kessler if they could search his home for stolen property. Police then observed a 73-inch television and a laptop matching the description on the stolen property. Police left to retrieve serial numbers, and during this time, Kessler threw the laptop in the trash. When the officers returned, they noticed the laptop was missing, and Kessler said that he didn't know where the computer was. After executing a search warrant and finding additional stolen property, Kessler admitted to throwing the laptop in the trash. The estimated cost of the television is $4,000 and the laptop is $350.
• Linda S. Sapp, 57, of Mingo was charged with possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia and fifth-degree theft after Newton police were dispatched to Walmart at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a shoplifter. Employees stated they have been suspicious of Sapp because of earlier incidents. Employees observed her placing items in a bag. She then went through check out but kept some of the items in the bag and didn't pay for them. She was stopped by employees at the door. The estimated value of attempted stolen goods was $16.26. When police arrived they conducted a search that revealed two baggies of white powder and a glass pipe. Both baggies weighed under one gram.
• Rick L. Wells, 28, of Newton was charged with domestic assault (aggravated misdemeanor) on Wednesday. At 8:43, police arrived at 319 E. Eighth St. N., where the victim, Wells' wife, had visible injuries, including a scratch on her right shoulder and neck, scrapes to her left forearm, visible red marks on the back of her neck and a small cut and light bleeding from the left corner of her mouth. The victim stated that she attempted to leave and take the children with her when Wells protested. She then took a video game remote, and Wells allegedly came after her for the remote and fought her for it. She stated that she believes this is where she sustained the injuries. She said Wells then threw her phone to the ground when she said she was going to call the police. Wells denied assaulting his wife but admitted there was a small scuffle after she tore his shirt. Police interviewed their 5-year-old daughter, who said "Daddy tackled Mommy in the hallway." Wells has a previous domestic assault conviction from 2008.
A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. It is the policy of the Newton Daily News to release the names of individuals charged with a crime who are 16 and older.


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Dark Souls II! Announced at the Spike VGAs last week, the sequel to From Software's torturous role-playing game is coming to PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 next year. No Wii U.
Some fans—at least 10,000, for starters—are a little peeved that there are no announced plans to bring Dark Souls II to Nintendo's new console. So they've started a petition. Are you listening, Namco Bandai?


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FORT HOOD, Texas--Since Sgt. Lindsay Robertson was a little girl, singing has been her passion.
From the school choir to school shows to even competing in her town's version of American Idol- Twin Tiers Idol Contest, Robertson has showcased her vocal capabilities.
Joining the Army soon after high school, the veteran of nearly four years has the opportunity that singers' dream of, to sing the National Anthem at an NFL game. Robertson, a signal support systems specialist assigned to Battery G, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 4th "Long Knife" Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, will sing the National Anthem at the Dallas Cowboys versus the Cleveland Browns game Nov. 18 at Cowboys Stadium.
"I'm really excited," Robertson said, visibly ecstatic. "I can't wait!"
To get selected to sing at the Dallas Cowboys game, Robertson had to go through an audition process. Her company commander selected her to audition at the brigade level where she won, and then she auditioned against nine to 10 people at the division level. Upon viewing her audition tape, the 1st Cavalry Division Commander and Command Sgt. Major selected her to go through one more approval chain--the Dallas Cowboys. They said yes and now, the Horseheads, N. Y., native is readying herself for the big day.
"I always get the butterflies before I sing but they go away as soon as I hit the first note," Robertson stated. "The thing I'm nervous about most is I always start too high. So, I've been making sure I start out low enough so I can hit the high notes."
When Robertson heard the Cowboys' average attendance this year was 80, 710 people, she boldly stated, "Bring it on!"
While preparing herself mentally and vocally for the upcoming performance, Robertson still gives 100 percent effort to her current operations as a training room noncommissioned officer in charge.
"She's an outstanding Soldier," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Price, an artillery mechanic supervisor assigned to Bty. G.
Having worked with Robertson for only a few months, Price is well aware of the talent residing in his unit.
"She sings at every National Anthem (function) that we do," stated Price, of Harker Heights, Texas. "She's done a bunch of change of commands. She is pretty much the official singer if we have a function."
"Her big dream is to make it in singing so I hope someone sees her and give her a phone call and maybe she can make it in the music industry. I'm basically hoping her dreams come true," Price added.
To support her on her big day, Robertson's Family will fly down from N.Y. When the Cowboys heard of her Family coming down, they gave them free tickets to the game.
Robertson's husband is also hoping to be able to see her perform in person. Recently tasked to deploy with the brigade to Afghanistan, Sgt. Darrell Robertson, is hoping everything works out so he can see his wife sing.
"I just hope I get to be here to see her sing," Darrell stated, a self-propelled fueled artillery mechanic assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 27th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th BCT.
"I think this is an amazing opportunity for her. I told her I was really proud of her," Darrell said, a native of Weston, Ore. "It takes a lot to get up there in front of all those people,"
Proudly, Darrell added, "I think she is going to knock it out of the ballpark."
With the National Anthem starting off the game; Robertson has cheering crowds, spectacular plays and of course the football players themselves to look forward to. When asked whom she would like to meet from the home team, she stated, "maybe (Dez) Bryant."
In terms of her military career, Robertson said she would like to be part of the Army Soldier's Show or sing with any other Army choir or band.
"Sgt. Robertson is a great talent and a great Soldier," stated Lt. Col. William Johnson, battalion commander for 5th Bn., 82nd F.A. Reg. "Her combat experience gives her singing the National Anthem passion and sincerity."
It seems Robertson already has what it takes to not only wow her peers, subordinates and supervisors, but maybe the nation too.