The Unexposed Secret of "Rise Up" – BYU’s new football song

   Brigham Young University’s sports message of the year, "Rise Up" has been all over the campus, at the bookstore, on t-shirts and will be shouted from the stadium at all home football games this fall. 

   This song, aptly titled "Rise Up" wasn’t recorded in an impressive recording studio, but through file-sharing on the internet.

   The musicians first reunited in 2010 at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp and performed live in San Francisco with one of their teenage influences, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad.

   In San Francisco, Farner and the musicians wrote and performed 2 original songs and also covered Grand Funk's top 40 charting hits from the early 70s "Rock and Roll Soul" to a packed audience.

   Discussing the reaction received on their song  version of "Rise Up," Kevin Wright, bass guitarist from Texas, said he was proud of the song and happy it has been received well.

   “We wanted to do something for the team and the University," Wright added.

     Other musicians include guitarist/songwriter Ken Van Wagenen, a BYU alumna now residing in Los Angeles, musician Doug Lyman, Marc Allen, keyboard player in Nashville, David Thomas, Utah vocalist, and Todd Mitchell, drummer, producer, and sound engineer.

   To view the "BYU Football Cougars Rise Up" on youtube, click this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2bkPB5ZF4

Medtecs Philippines launches environment friendly fabrics.

Hotels and hospitals can now save a lot of  money,  time, and energy on the daily laundry of their linens with Medtecs Philippines two new fabrics.

Inspired by the hotel and hospital industries’ demands for their linen’s  brighter look, environment care, and revolutionary energy savings on weaving and dyeing, Medtecs manufactured two new  fabrics  using sophisticated water jet looms, specifically targeted to lessen the daily laundry cost.

 “We are taking design of our fabrics to a new level by featuring an expanded array of rich, lustrous fashion driven, energy saving technologies, textures and patterns durable enough for today’s environment problem world,” Akhmad Irgashev, Medtecs’ executive vice president said. 

The two newly launched energy saving fabrics aptly named Bataan Silk and Bataan Water, which were invented by Medtecs in its manufacturing plant in Bataan, were proven to save up to 40 percent of its washing time.

Due to the newest  technology that Medtecs created with the new fabrics, Bataan Silk and Bataan Water are easily cleaned and washed, saving the hotels and hospitals, which washes their linens on  a daily basis.

This means a hotels and hospitals’ housekeeping departments could save 40 percent on their daily washing budget as the time, pressure, water, soap and efforts are lessened.

In this time when Philippines is facing another energy crisis, the two new energy saving fabrics is a must-have for hotels and hospitals.

Presently, hotels and hospitals use the classic linens that takes a lot of time, effort, and energy to wash everyday.  Not to mention the wear and tear of the classic old linens that  go through the daily washes.

The two new brand of fabrics, which were created using Medtecs’ water technology washes easily and are cleaned fast, and don’t wear and tear easily as they are built for the daily wash.

While Bataan Silk is more beautiful and luxurious than Bataan Water which is better fitted for budget-conscious business, both fabrics  used Medtecs’ unique water technology and are top savers of the environment.

Medtecs Philippines, with its manufacturing plant in Bataan, and business office in Makati City, is an integrated healthcare products and services provider in the Asia Pacific Region, and a leading manufacturer and distributor of medical consumables for the global health industry. 

Medtecs group started its operation in the Philippines in 1989, and has since then established a strong presence in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific Region.  Aside from the Philippines, Medtecs has also its offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cambodia and the People’s Republic of China.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.medtecs.com.tw/