[Tip] Congratulations Fred!

**Diane** · 03-04-2011, 08:07 PM

Fred Wellens has won a Chamber of Commerce Award for his recently opened clinic in Provost, Quebec.
You can see Fred being interviewed, in French, here:
http://rougecerise.ca/2011/04/gagnan...rome-lareleve/

Congratulations !!

SO VERY proud of you, Fred !

:

**Frédéric** · 04-04-2011, 03:40 AM

Thanks Diane,

I really did not expect to win. I was up against some pretty serious competition. I am so happy. It's a very welcomed boost for those times when I'm questionning myself and the caseload is lower than hoped for.

I even got a trophy

**Diane** · 04-04-2011, 03:44 AM

Jon Newman · 04-04-2011, 04:08 AM

I couldn't understand a word of the interview but good job Fred.

**Diane** · 04-04-2011, 05:24 AM

"Le grand gagnant est Frédéric Wellens"
This means, "The Grand winner is Fred Wellens." It's the only thing I could really read/translate/understand (I am so bad with French..

). I remembered from French class in school that "gagnant" meant something like "gainer" or "winner."
That much French comprehension, plus the sight of Fred in a tie, being interviewed in a video, plus the fact that Fred twittered it (in a humble manner, but at least he thought it was worth tweeting, and it was about him!), was sufficient to convince me it was actually something huge.

**Frédéric** · 04-04-2011, 06:15 AM

The prize I won was actually awarded to a new entrepreneur who stood out of the lot with his buisness project. You had to be 35 yo or below in 2010 to qualify for the prize. The other fiinalists I was up against where a pharmacy and a cie making commercial hancrafted signs.

The criterias were various and we had to fill up a lenghty questionnaire and give our financial results when submitting our candidacy.

It was an award evening with something like 8 prizes and I was nominated for 2 prizes. I ended up winning one. The jury was a pretty serious panel of buisness, community and environnemental people. Most of the other prizes were awarded to big million dollars cie.

I honestly though the pharmacy would win. So I had not prepared any thank you speech

People were all over me after I received the prize. The mayor, town journalists, folks wanting me to look into their new therapeutic laser stuff. It was very exhilirating but also a bit overwhelming. Tomorrow, life in the clinic has to resume normaly.

**Diane** · 04-04-2011, 06:28 AM

Quote:

folks wanting me to look into their new therapeutic laser stuff.

Oh, yikes. They saw you as a potential sale! Oh no. Well, you'll be able to enjoy and maybe display your new trophy. Hey, post a picture of it?

**amacs** · 04-04-2011, 12:36 PM

well done Frederic

ANdy

**Bas Asselbergs** · 04-04-2011, 12:38 PM

Holy smokes!
That is well-done, Frederic!

**Jason Silvernail** · 04-04-2011, 01:49 PM

Wow great job Fred!

**caro** · 04-04-2011, 02:34 PM

Enjoy!

Your success is inspirational.

Caro.

**Frédéric** · 04-04-2011, 02:45 PM

here is a trophy picture

**Diane** · 04-04-2011, 03:15 PM

Thanks for posting that. It's a very cool trophy. I like it because it reminds me a bit of a very large Occam's Razor Blade.

03-04-2011, 08:07 PM	#1
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,674 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,190 Times in 1,568 Posts	Congratulations Fred! Fred Wellens has won a Chamber of Commerce Award for his recently opened clinic in Provost, Quebec. You can see Fred being interviewed, in French, here: http://rougecerise.ca/2011/04/gagnan...rome-lareleve/ *Congratulations !!* SO VERY proud of you, Fred ! : __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

04-04-2011, 03:40 AM	#2
Frédéric Swaying against the breeze Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Prévost Québec Age: 37 Posts: 1,880 Thanks: 92 Thanked 122 Times in 57 Posts	Thanks Diane, I really did not expect to win. I was up against some pretty serious competition. I am so happy. It's a very welcomed boost for those times when I'm questionning myself and the caseload is lower than hoped for. I even got a trophy __________________ Frédéric Wellens, pht «We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.» «Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. » Friedrich Nietzsche www.physioaxis.ca chroniquesdedouleur blog

04-04-2011, 03:44 AM	#3
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,674 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,190 Times in 1,568 Posts	__________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

04-04-2011, 05:24 AM	#5
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,674 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,190 Times in 1,568 Posts	"Le grand gagnant est Frédéric Wellens" This means, "The Grand winner is Fred Wellens." It's the only thing I could really read/translate/understand (I am so bad with French.. ). I remembered from French class in school that "gagnant" meant something like "gainer" or "winner." That much French comprehension, plus the sight of Fred in a tie, being interviewed in a video, plus the fact that Fred twittered it (in a humble manner, but at least he thought it was worth tweeting, and it was about him!), was sufficient to convince me it was actually something huge. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

04-04-2011, 06:15 AM	#6
Frédéric Swaying against the breeze Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Prévost Québec Age: 37 Posts: 1,880 Thanks: 92 Thanked 122 Times in 57 Posts	The prize I won was actually awarded to a new entrepreneur who stood out of the lot with his buisness project. You had to be 35 yo or below in 2010 to qualify for the prize. The other fiinalists I was up against where a pharmacy and a cie making commercial hancrafted signs. The criterias were various and we had to fill up a lenghty questionnaire and give our financial results when submitting our candidacy. It was an award evening with something like 8 prizes and I was nominated for 2 prizes. I ended up winning one. The jury was a pretty serious panel of buisness, community and environnemental people. Most of the other prizes were awarded to big million dollars cie. I honestly though the pharmacy would win. So I had not prepared any thank you speech People were all over me after I received the prize. The mayor, town journalists, folks wanting me to look into their new therapeutic laser stuff. It was very exhilirating but also a bit overwhelming. Tomorrow, life in the clinic has to resume normaly. __________________ Frédéric Wellens, pht «We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.» «Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. » Friedrich Nietzsche www.physioaxis.ca chroniquesdedouleur blog

04-04-2011, 04:08 AM	#4
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	I couldn't understand a word of the interview but good job Fred.

04-04-2011, 12:36 PM	#8
amacs A bear of little brain Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,397 Thanks: 175 Thanked 255 Times in 128 Posts	well done Frederic ANdy __________________ "Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it." A.A. Milne

04-04-2011, 12:38 PM	#9
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 840 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Holy smokes! That is well-done, Frederic! __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

04-04-2011, 01:49 PM	#10
Jason Silvernail Clinician and Researcher Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Age: 39 Posts: 4,078 Thanks: 111 Thanked 536 Times in 182 Posts	Wow great job Fred! __________________ Jason Silvernail DPT, DSc, FAAOMPT Board-Certified in Orthopedic Physical Therapy Fellowship-Trained in Orthopedic Manual Therapy Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist The views expressed in this entry are those of the author alone and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the US Government.

04-04-2011, 02:34 PM	#11
caro Arbiter Join Date: Jan 2011 Age: 43 Posts: 681 Thanks: 1,168 Thanked 437 Times in 174 Posts	Enjoy! Your success is inspirational. Caro.

04-04-2011, 03:15 PM	#13
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,674 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,190 Times in 1,568 Posts	Thanks for posting that. It's a very cool trophy. I like it because it reminds me a bit of a very large Occam's Razor Blade. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

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