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BY V ANESSA GRIEVE
POCATELLO — “You’re not going tobelieve this, mom,” were the first wordsthat came from 18-year-old Zach Enten-man when he called his family afterwinning a Lincoln Town Car, paintedBengal orange and black, on Monday.
The Idaho State University freshmanfrom Meridian jumped with excite-ment after his name was called at theWelcome Back Orange and Black event
See ISU, A2
BY JOURNAL STAFF
Two soldiers from Pocatellowere among the survivors of a
attack in Iraq when the Mine Re-sistant Ambush Protected vehiclethey were riding in was engulfedin flames, Army National Guardofficials confirmed Monday.
None of the three soldiers in theMRAP sustained serious injuries.
The soldiers, part of the 116thCavalry Regiment, 77th Sustain-ment Brigade, 310th Expedi-tionary Sustainment Command,attributed their good fortune totheir training and the durabilityof their vehicle.
The soldiers in the MRAPincluded Pocatello natives Spc.Chad Mitschelen and Sgt. JuanMontelongo and Sgt. Victor Pam-plona, of Maui, Hawaii.
See Guard, A4
BY JIMMYH ANCOCK
The Garden Fire, a wildfirein southeast Power County, wasexpected to be 100 percent con-tained late Monday night andcompletely under control byWednesday, officials said.
In Northeast Bannock County,however, where the Two and AHalf Mile Fire reached 432 acresby early Monday morning, crewswill need an additional 24 hours,with 100 percent containmentexpected later this evening.
Meanwhile, Idaho National
Laboratory firefighters battled a128-acre wildfire on the north-west side of the INL desert sitethat began Monday afternoon.The fire is burning on both sidesof state Highway 33 on Bureauof Land Management and INLproperty. The fire is not near anyINL facilities.
BLM air tankers have droppedretardant onto the west and northsides, which are primarily onBLM land.
A unified fire command hasbeen established with BLM.About 40 firefighters were onscene.
The fire led to a temporaryclosure of Highway 33 and italso damaged two Rocky Moun-tain Power poles.
At least two bulldozers werebuilding fire lines to contain hotspots.
The cause of the fire is un-known at this time and is underinvestigation.
Both the Garden and Twoand A Half Mile fires ragedon Sunday and are suspectedto have been started by light-ning. The Garden Fire hadburned up to 1,750 acres in the
See Fire, A4
BY JIMMYH ANCOCK
POCATELLO — Unable tocontrol her emotions at times,Stephanie Christensen foughtback tears asshe sharedwith SixthDistrict JudgeStephen Dunnsome of thedetails of howshe and threeothers beat awoman andultimately left
her for deadin the bottoms area of FortHall last April.
She also gave some back-ground details about the angerthat led to that brutal night.It started, she said, when sheallowed Vantaysha Wallaceto move into her apartmentwith her a month earlier, andthe relationship quickly wentsouth from there.
“She did a bunch of thingswhile she lived with me,”Christensen said.
Christensen, 18, along withKarissa Salaz, 19, Jamie L.Nappo, 18, and Cody Joe A.Childers, 20, were all arrestedon April 13, and charged withfirst-degree kidnapping,
See Attack, A5
Defendantin beating case fights back tears
New fire starts
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011
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Trees burst into flames during Sunday’s Two and A Half Mile Fire northeast of Pocatello. For video and a photogallery from this story, go to idahostatejournal.com.
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Sentencing delayedin shooting death
The sentencing of
Daniel Grant
Olsen, the
Pocatello man
charged in the
shooting death of
Gregory Parent, waspostponed Monday
at the request of
his attorney, who said he needed
to coordinate witnesses. SEE A7
Merger would benefit rural areasMillions of AT&T and T-Mobile
USA customers nationwide couldhave access to faster cell phone
Internet service soon. SEE A8
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Sgt. Victor Pamplona, of Maui, Hawaii, from left, Sgt. Juan Montelongo
and Spc. Chad Mitschelen, both of Pocatello, survived an attack on theirMine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle in Iraq recently.
BY JOHNO’CONNELL
POCATELLO — Investiga-tors suspect a local volunteerfirefighter started four smallfires in the area from mid- tolate-July.
Pocatellopolice ini-tially chargedGlenn An-thony Thor,32, with third-degree arsonon July 19after an offi-cer reportedlysaw him stop his car along theWest Clark Street Extensionand throw a lit road flare fromthe window into the grass.
Officer Jacob Pokorny no-ticed Thor’s suspicious vehicle
See Thor, A5
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BUSINESSBUSINESSBIZ ROUNDUPBIZ ROUNDUP
BRIEFLYBRIEFLY
New Business HighlightQGate Crossfit recently opened at 450E. Day Suite E, right across from Farr’sIce Cream. Personal training classes areoffered Monday through Friday at 6 a.m., 7a.m., 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on Saturdayat 8 a.m. The public is welcome to give ita try. The first workout is free. For furtherinformation, dial 234-GATE. “CrossFit
is a strength and conditioning brandthat combines weightlifting, sprinting,gymnastics, powerlifting, kettlebelltraining, plyometrics, rowing, and medicineball training,” explained Austin Shawver,owner and trainer. “Classes typicallyinclude a warm-up, a skill development
segment, and a high-intensity workout thatlasts around 10 to 20 minutes.”
Closeout SaleQThe Sheep Shop temporarilyreopened inside of Station Square inOld Town Pocatello. The store locatedat 200 South Main St. is open Thursdaythrough Saturday from 11-5 p.m. or byappointment. Call 241-2310. “Everythingis marked down by 50 percent and below.It’s the last of the inventory I had built
up,” said Betty Anderson, the owner whorecently retired. “I will also be a part of
the First Friday Art Walk on Sept. 2. Rightnow, people can get a really good deal onleather jackets, UGG boots and sterlingsilver jewelr y.”
Prize GiveawayQDr. Dwight Romriell of The TMJ SleepCenter is holding a drawing on Sept. 7for a 42-inch color television. Stop at the
office at 1777 East Clark St. to enter.
Recent Ribbon CuttingsQSweet Stuff, 231 West Quinn Rd., Suite
C in Pocatello.QHeart of the West Civitan DistrictConvention at Old Town Pavilion, 420North Main St. in Pocatello.
Contact Tammy Scardino at tscardino@ journalnet.com with information on newbusinesses opening up in your area.
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Millions of AT&T andT-Mobile USA customersnationwide could have ac-cess to faster cell phoneinternet service if the twocompanies’ merger transac-tion is approved by the U.S.Department of Justice andthe Federal CommunicationsCommission.
The deal that could greatlybenefit rural areas, in par-ticular, will cost AT&T $39billion, according to theirPresident of External AffairsAdam Grzybicki.
“A lot of smaller and me-dium sized businesses willnow be able to rely on mobiletraffic by having the fasterwireless speeds available,”Grzybicki says. “It broadenswhat they can do on theirsmartphones and tablets —it’s going to give them moreflexibility in terms of theirbusiness marketing. It alsomeans they will be able to cutthe cords for their DSL servic-es because what we’re bringingto Pocatello will far surpass thecurrent capabilities.”
The external affairs repre-sentative for Idaho, Oregonand Montana indicates thatmembers of the business com-munity in Idaho are behindthe investment that is esti-mated to pay off within fiveyears of the transaction’s ap-proval. FCC filing letters havebeen submitted by GovernorC.L. “Butch” Otter, the IdahoSpeaker of the House, the Ida-ho House majority leader, theIdaho Business League andfrom various representativesof city chamber of commerceoffices.
“The proposed merger willbe a big boon for Pocatelloand Idaho in general,” Grzy-
bicki says. “The commitmentwe’re making on the heels of this transaction is to build upthe 4G Long Term Evolution,which is the fastest wireless
speed available, and to buildup 93 percent of Idaho. So,the fastest speeds out therewill be here, and it’s the sameservices that will be offered to
our customers in major met-ropolitan cities. That is thebeauty of this.”
Besides being able to offerbusiness owners a service that
will allow them to be moreglobally competitive, the tech-nological trend will carve theway for advancements in the
See Merger, A9
BILL SCHAEFER /IDAHO STATE JOURNAL
AT&T President of External Affairs Adam Grzybicki says a merger between AT&T and T-Mobile will
benefit small business. For video from this stor y, go to idahostatejournal.com.
Official: AT&T, T-Mobile merger would benefit rural areas
Gasoline prices fallthroughout Idaho
BOISE — Average retail gasolineprices in Idaho have fallen by 2.0 centsper gallon in the past week, averaging$3.65/g Sunday. This compares withthe national average that decreased by
1.4 cents per gallon in the last week to$3.58/g, according to gasoline pricewebsite IdahoGasPrices.com.
Including the change in gas price s inIdaho during the past week, prices Sundaywere 70.2 cents per gallon higher thanthe same day one year ago and are 4.8cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
The national average has moved lowerby 10.4 cents per gallon during the lastmonth and stands 86.7 cents per gallonhigher than this day one year ago.
“Although crude oil ended anothervolatile week on the upswing, rising from$79 to settle just above $82 per barrel atFriday’s close, overall demand for gasoline
is not likely to increase any time soon andwe should not be surprised to see crudeoil slip to the mid-70s this week as theprice at the pump edges lower too,” saysGregg Laskoski, GasBuddy.com SeniorPetroleum Analyst.
GasBuddy.com operates more than
200 live gasoline price-tracking websites,including IdahoGasPrices.com.
TogetherAllstate andFarm Bureau
Insurance are mak-ing the insurance in-dustry an importantpart of the econom-ics of SoutheasternIdaho. As Allstateprepares to open itscustomer information centerin Chubbuck this fall with upto 600 employees, it is a goodthing to understand a little bitabout the history of the insur-ance industry.
Because it allows business totake risks by insuring againstadverse results, insurancemakes business expansionmore attractive.
Many believe that insuranceas we know it originated withLloyd’s of London in the late1600s — a coffee house thatbecame one of the world’s bestknown insurance providers.But Lloyd’s is not the oldestinsurer.
History is full of examplesof insurance practices. TheCode of Hammurabi written in1750 B.C. mentions a practice
where merchantswould pay theirlenders an extrafee in exchangefor a promise tocancel the loan if their goods werelost during transit.The merchantsof the island of
Rhodes around 700 B.C. paidinto a common fund, whichprotected them from losses of goods and ships. The Greeksand Romans by 600 B.C. hadcreated several benevolent
organizations which paid themember’s family a benefitupon their death.
As trade became more com-mon during the Middle Ages,the need for and use of insur-ance grew. In 1347 in Genoa,Italy, written insurance poli-cies were being issued. TheTalmud gives clear evidencethat Europe’s Jewish commu-nity established an insurancesystem during the MiddleAges. In England there are le-gal documents of life insuranceand property insurance exist-ing as early as 1628.
In the United States the firstorganized insurance companywas founded in Charlestown,S.C., in 1732. This companyonly issued policies to protectagainst fire damage.
Fire was a major concernin colonial America. BenFranklin was among a groupof businessmen in 1752 whoformed the Philadelphia Con-tributionship for the Insuranceof Houses from Loss by Fire.The company applied earlyactuarial standards by refus-ing to insure certain high-risk
buildings such as all-woodenstructures.It was sometime before life
insurance came to American.This was largely due to thepoor life expectancy of the col-onists. Life insurance finallybegan to appear in Americaduring the 1760s. Both thePresbyterian and Episcopalchurches provided life insur-ance for their clergies’ fami-lies.
Health insurance in theUnited States developed at firstas a type of accident insurancefor railroad employees in the
1850s. One of the earliest of modern health insurance planswas developed by a group of African American workersin Muchakinock, Iowa. Theyorganized a mutual protectionsociety in 1887, and memberspaid a monthly premium of $1per family for health coverage.
Allstate’s history dates backto 1931 when it was foundedas part of Sears, Roebuck andCo. The company is namedfor a popular Allstate brandof car tires Sears sold in the1920s and 1930s. The firm was
spun off from Sears in 1993.Currently, the company is thesecond largest insurer in theUnited States with reportedrevenues of $32 billion in 2009.Over 80 percent of the firm’srevenue comes from propertyliability insurance.
Besides bringing many jobsto the Pocatello area, Allstaterepresents a time-honored andimportant industry in Pocatel-lo.
Dan Cravens is the regionaleconomist for the Departmentof Labor in Pocatello.
Insurance allows businesses to take riskCOMMENTARY
DAN
CRAVENS
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field of telemedicine and fa-cilitate physicians’ ability to re-motely manage the health of theirpatients.
Grzybicki says increased ac-cess to broadband can alsoprovide more higher learningopportunities for students of allages.
“The economic opportunitiesare endless,” Grzybicki says.“Access to the 4G network can at-tract new businesses that requirefast broadband speeds and wantthe benefits of a rural location.”
The U.S. wireless industry isone of the most fiercely competi-tive markets in the world and willremain so after this deal, accord-ing to Grzybicki.
“When you take away a pro-vider, people think that the pricesautomatically go up. But the pric-ing landscape will be the same,”Grzybicki says, who has beenwith the company since 1998.“There are five or more choicesstill out there, and none of ourcustomers or T-Mobile USA’scustomers have to change theircurrent plan. Everything will begrandfathered in. They only thingthat will change is the logo.”
With AT&T’s customer basemigrating to smartphones, Grzy-bicki projects that such users willmake up 50 percent of the basetotal within the next year.
“The upgrade mainly consistsof adding stronger fiber opticlines from within the existingtowers,” Grzybicki explains.“Once everything is in place, theslow (internet) speed goes away
overnight.”The judicial review process is
expected to wrap up by the end of the year with an announcementto shortly follow.
“It’s hard to judge what the fu-ture will hold for technology butthe findings of at least one studyconclude that by the year 2020,the mobile handheld device isgoing to be the primary internetengine in the U.S.,” Grzybickisays. “So, I think within the nextdecade we’ll see this migrationunfold and see far less desk topscompared to today.”
“Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but
nobody thinks of changinghimself.”
—Leo Tolstoy
“O, it is excellent to havea giant’s strength, but it istyrannous to use it like a
giant.” —William Shakespeare
Recently I heard an anal-ogy appropriate formany managers in to-
day’s workforce. It goes some-
thing like this:The new owner of a fine
racehorse was excited to pre-pare the horse for competition.He hired an excellent trainerand jockey and let them beginpreparations for the big race.Each day he would overseethe interaction between the jockey and the trainer, thenoffer thoughts and suggestionsas to how things could be donebetter. The day of the big race,the owner was confident in thetraining that had been doneand was sure that his horsewould win. As they loaded thehorse into the starting gate,he couldn’t help but go up tothe jockey to offer a few finalwords of instruction. The racestarted, the horse got a slowstart so the owner quicklystopped the horse to give bothhorse and jockey instructionson how to perform better andsent them on their way. They
weren’t makingup ground asquickly as theyshould, so hestopped themagain to delivermore pointedinstructionson improvingperformance.
Soon the race was over andthe man’s prized horse hadfailed to catch up with the restof the pack, finishing in lastplace. Upset, the owner firedthe trainer and jockey because
they couldn’t train the animalproperly and sold the horse be-cause it didn’t run very fast.
Similar to this analogy, manymanagers hire good people buthinder their performance by mi-cromanaging. A micromanagingleader is about as unproductiveas a leader can be because theyare doing the work of multiplepeople. There are many reasonsleaders micromanage theirthoroughbreds: fear, need forcontrol, lack of trust, can’t letgo, need for perfection or jeal-ousy. Many people are thrustinto leadership roles withoutany training or mentoring, so tosucceed, they mimic behaviorsof managers they have known,perpetuating dysfunctional be-havior.
A few years ago, I worked ata company that had a sloganfrom the owner stenciled overthe entrance for all employeesto read as they entered the
building. It said, “The key tomy success is that I have hiredgood people, and got out of their way.” Le aders who hiregood people then don’t get outof their way, cost their compa-nies thousands of dollars eachyear in lost productivity, em-ployee satisfaction, turnoverand innovation.
It is time to break the cycleof micromanagement andtransform organizations intothe high- performance ma-chines they were meant to be.
Break the Cycle
If you evaluate your leader-ship style honestly and dis-cover any of the issues listedabove, here are four things thatcan be done to break the mi-cromanagement cycle.
1. Look at yourself in themirror and admit that you area micromanager. Commit to dosomething about it. Find peerswho will give you honest feed-back about your managementstyle and really listen to whatthey say without becoming de-fensive.
2. Revisit your group’sstrengths and weaknesses,reminding yourself why youhired them in the first place.Part of your lack of trust maycome from having past projectsfail, so examining the rolesyour people are playing andmaking sure you have the rightpeople doing the right thingswill help give you confidencefor the next step.
3. Pick a project and let thehorses run! Baby-step yourway to freedom by picking asmall project or task that youcan let your people do withoutyour constant observation. Re-member that it will take two or
three small projects for yourpeople to really begin to shine,so be patient and rememberthe big picture.
4. Evaluate the project withthe team. Listen to the teamreview what worked and didn’twork. Resist the urge to mo-nopolize the conversation andprovide feedback only whenasked. You will learn a lotabout how your people thinkand view your organizationby doing this. You will beginto demonstrate to your peoplethat you trust them.
Micromanagers do rule, butthose leaders who can let theirhorses run, are the ones whotruly make a difference. Theywin more races than they willever lose.
Dr. Joseph Fleishman is thedirector of Workforce Trainingat the College of Technology,Idaho State University.
Micromanaging can backfire MergerCOMMENTARY
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NEW YORK (AP) — It was an-other day of big swings in the DowJones industrial average, but at leastMonday ended with a modest gain.
The Dow soared 200 points in themorning, an encouraging start afterfour weeks of losses. By noon thatgain shriveled to just 2 points, thencame a rise of another 100 in theafternoon. At the end of the day, theDow closed up 37 points.
Compared with the even wilder
fluctuations over the past twoweeks, Monday’s trading lookedrelatively calm. The Dow hasgained or lost at least 200 pointseight days in August, including a419-point plunge last Thursday. Aflare-up of Europe’s debt crisis andfears of a new U.S. recession haveshaken investors, taking the Dowdown 15 percent in one month.
Hewlett-Packard Co. rose 3.6percent, the most of the 30 large
companies in the Dow Jones indus-trial average. H-P sank 20 percenton Friday after saying it planned tosell its PC business and stop sellingother products.
Bank stocks, which have beenclobbered over worries about Eu-rope’s debt crisis, took another fall.JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped 2.7percent. Bank of America lost 7.9percent, the biggest drop among the30 Dow companies.
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