 weeks ago, Fitzgerald was featured in a video showing the beginning process of tearing out the floor and completely re-working Tennessee’s weight room. Now it appears as though that work is nearly completely finished.
Bert Biffani, one of Pruitt’s defensive quality control coaches, tweeted out this picture of the weight room on Friday morning:
Christmas came early for @UTCoachFitz with this new weight room! #PoweredByTheT 🍊🍊🍊 pic.twitter.com/I8n1YxHwST
— Bert Biffani (@CoachBertB) May 4, 2018
Then a few hours later, Tennessee’s official football Twitter account when on a tweeting spree showing off the new weight room.
The first video Tennessee sent out showed the crew working on putting together the free weight machines in preparation for the final procedures:
Move in day for @UTCoachFitz and the strength staff! 🏋️♂️#PoweredByTheT #WORKDAY pic.twitter.com/UcucHMORPb
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) May 4, 2018
Fitzgerald himself tweeted out a video of the equipment being carried in to the actual facility:
#RacksonRacksonRacks #PowerT #WorkDay pic.twitter.com/mrY8nrL2z4
— Craig Fitzgerald (@UTCoachFitz) May 4, 2018
Then Sorinex, the company who provided the equipment, tweeted out that a “world class program deserves world class strength tools” along with a picture of a fully constructed set-up:
World class program deserves world class strength tools. #poweredbytheT #sorinex @Vol_Football @Vol_Sports pic.twitter.com/4feGJhvBaL
— Sorinex Exercise Equipment (@Sorinex) May 4, 2018
Fitzgerald was hired away from the Houston Texans when Pruitt brought him in to serve as Tennessee’s strength and conditioning coach. Fitzgerald had been with Houston since 2014 and had been the director of strength and conditioning at Penn State and South Carolina previously.
Strength and conditioning has been an area Tennessee has struggled in over the last few seasons. The Vols have had an inordinate amount of injuries the past two seasons, and Fitzgerald is the fourth strength and conditioning coach Tennessee has had over the last four years.*I was not paid for this post since I did not personally review the product.
When I was approached to be a blogger for the eSalon Blog Tour Campaign through the Mom It Forward Blogger Network, I thought it was a good opportunity as they offered me not only free product to review, but compensation* as well (this is how most bloggers make money). And I figured I was probably due to color my hair again. I will not confirm nor deny if I actually saw a gray hair sprout out of my temple (and don't look in the trash can for evidence).
Macy hates when I use non-salon products on my hair. Even though we have huge stockpiles of haircare products at our house, Macy still buys me products from a professional beauty supply store (because she knows I would never spend that much money on shampoo and conditioner). Since eSalon claims to carry salon-grade products, I figured Macy would approve, and I placed my order.
The ordering process was straight-forward and easy. They offer new customers 50% off so they can get their first order for only $10 through this link.
After I placed my order, I got an email from their Influencer Marketing Manager if I could schedule a call with their head stylist to make sure that they send me exactly what I was looking for. I replied that the times she offered didn't work (since I was babysitting the coolest nephew ever), but she call a different time or email the questions. I prefer email to phone calls anyway.
The stylist had thought the color that I picked out (Darkest Brown) might be a bit too dark. I replied that my daughter is a cosmetologist and always colors my hair just one shade away from black because my hair is really dark, so do please send the darkest brown.
I then received my #MadeForYou box from eSalon complete with personalized instructions for me (Kim Rowley).
She then shared the Facebook post that one of her friends, a fellow cosmetologist, posted a day earlier.
Do NOT color your hair at home with eSalon. I can guarantee you that you will be sitting in my chair, if not someone else's chair, paying another $120-$160 getting it fixed. If you're not professionally trained to work on hair, you will not know anything about the products you're putting in to your hair. Just don't. Please.
Macy told me she would disown me as her mother if I even thought about using the eSalon hair color. Needless to say, I had to choose keeping Macy as a daughter over coloring my hair with eSalon products. I don't have any gray hair anyway, right?!
Since I can't give a personal review of eSalon, I suggest you google other eSalon reviews before deciding for yourself.
*After submitting this post for review, I was asked not to post it. I was also told I would not be paid. I am always 100% honest with my readers. Payment may influence the topics I write about, but money will not influence my opinions. I spent time writing this post and believe it may still be helpful to some of my readers, so I am posting it with no compensation.
P.S. They told me to feel free to throw the product away.
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I really appreciate your honest view point. As a blogger myself, I always try to be 100% with my readers because as a consumer, I would want to what worked and what did not. Sometimes it’s hard to actually believe that the post you are reading about is the honest true, because everyone is usually so worried about their paycheck. I don’t agree with that. I’d rather blog with integrity than for a quick buck. I think you did the honest thing and really appreciate not only the honest review of ESalon, but of the issues that bloggers can face.Plans are stalled! Australia’s competition watchdog has raised preliminary concern over Qantas’ investment plans in Alliance Airlines.
The ACCC today expressed preliminary concern, five months after Qantas acquired 19.9 percent interest in the air charter company.
WHY IS THE ACCC SO CONCERNED?
In a statement, the competition watchdog said Alliance Airlines competes strongly with Qantas for charter air services in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Additionally, Alliance Airlines is the Flying Kangaroo’s only competitor on regular passenger transport routes between Brisbane and Bundaberg and Gladstone.
The ACCC is worried that Qantas’ interest in Alliance Airlines may reduce competition “in markets that are already highly concentrated”.
Additionally, ACCC’s Chairman Rod Sims believes the stake purchase may impact Alliance Airlines future growth, whether customers perceive it as an independent rival to Qantas and affect rival takeover approaches.
“In our view, any move by one company to acquire and build on a significant stake in a close competitor is likely to raise competition issues, due to the potential for the two businesses to compete less vigorously, or to influence each others’ strategies or outcomes,” he added.
HOW DID QANTAS RESPOND?
The Flying Kangaroo responded to the ACCC online, saying it invested in Alliance Airlines because “it is a profitable, well-managed business with attractive levels of exposure to the resurgent resources charter market”.
Qantas stressed that it was not “sought any management control or a Board seat” and continues to remain a passive investor.
The ACCC will continue to investigate the potential lessening of competition due to the purchase. The watchdog has called for customers and competitors to submit comments on the issue.
Qantas has agreed to corporate fully with the watchdog’s inquiries, saying it has been “completely transparent in its goal to ultimately seek ACCC permission to take a majority stake in Alliance”.
The airline continued, saying its current stake is not “contingent on reaching a majority position” and has agreed to not acquire any further interest in the company until the investigation is over.

The big agencies constantly give on price in two ways. First, while their posted prices may seem reasonable they constantly discount prices to the major publishers in an effort to take market share away from each other. The major publishers – Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill Education and Scholastic – control a huge portion of the demand for educational content. The big photo distributors – Getty, Corbis and Alamy - are fearful of losing market share. In addition, they are always trying to take share away from their competitors. As a result they easily succumb to publisher requests for even greater discounts. And the prices they charge go steadily down.
It is not surprising that publishers would constantly pressure for better prices in an effort to increase their profits. But, the Big Distributors have no incentive to hold the line. They get the imagery they represent for free. All they have to do is cover their marketing costs with their share of the gross fee collected. They do everything they can to increase volume. If that means lower unit prices, so be it. If total revenue drops below a certain point they adjust the royalties they pay to creators so they can still keep enough to cover their costs