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Tanya Warren

Name: Tanya Warren

Age: 43

Hometown: Des Moines

Occupation: Head coach, University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball team. Warren took on the job in 2007, after serving as associate head coach at Creighton University. She was a former assistant coach under UNI’s Tony DiCecco for six years before moving on to Missouri, where she spent three years with the Tigers, and then three more at Creighton. Warren is the first black women’s head coach in Missouri Valley Conference history.

Education: Des Moines Lincoln High School; Creighton University, where she was a point guard and became the career leader in assists and set a single-season record in 1987. She is one of only two Bluejay women to have their basketball jerseys retired.

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Financial fairy tales
CEDAR FALLS - Barbara Stanny may have been born into money, but she is the first to admit she wasn’t always smart about her finances.

Stanny is the daughter of Richard Bloch, the “R” of H&R Block. For her 21st birthday, her parents flew her to Las Vegas in a Learjet where a limo met her on the tarmac. They were waiting for her in the penthouse suite at Caesar’s Palace. There, her father presented her with a trust fund filled with H&R stock.

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For Someone Who Has Everything
Give a gift card and let them shop! Good at any Hy-Vee or Hy-Vee Drugstore, gift cards are available in denominations from $5 to $250 — and you can add additional value to them at any time at your local Hy-Vee.  Hy-Vee also offers a wide variety of merchant gift cards.  Choose from dining, movies, music, home, fashion and many more.

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Sweater weather
Sweater weather is here, and sweaters have never been better. Triangular shapes, one-button closures, rich saturated colors, full sleeves and versatile necklines set this season’s crop of sweaters apart from seasons past. Sweaters that work as jackets abound.

Even sweater sets are far from basic, with elongated cardigans, sleeve treatments and plenty of details.

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Fresh Ideas
WATERLOO - Chef Sengun Bulur tossed several crushed garlic cloves and butter into a smoking skillet and pushed it around with a wooden spoon.

On the other side of a granite-topped cooking island, a dozen guests leaned forward, inhaling the pungent aroma.

Books for cooks
Cookbooks are as fun to read as they are to give and receive as gifts.

These are some of the latest cookbooks on the shelves, just in time for holiday shopping.

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Sweater weather
Sweater weather is here, and sweaters have never been better. Triangular shapes, one-button closures, rich saturated colors, full sleeves and versatile necklines set this season’s crop of sweaters apart from seasons past. Sweaters that work as jackets abound.

Even sweater sets are far from basic, with elongated cardigans, sleeve treatments and plenty of details.

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    Mom makes son?s 21st birthday delightful

    It’s funny what you’ll do for a child’s birthday. When my oldest son asked whether he could have Turkish Delight for his late December celebration, I said, “Sure.” We’ve loved the Narnia series in our home and the thought of returning to college and telling everyone he’d had this concoction must have sounded pretty cool. I [...]