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Carlos Beruff was in ruins.

The tough-talking Republican U.S. Senate candidate boasts of his business success as a key selling point to voters. He turned a help-wanted ad into a home-building business worth more than $150 million, his campaign touts.

But it's failure, he says, that ultimately put him in the position he is in today: a confident campaigner willing to put millions of his own money into his first-ever bid for political office.

His low point came in the early 1990s. After a decade of "pulling rabbits out of hats" to live another day in the land development business, Beruff had run out of magic.

"I almost went broke," said Beruff, one of five Republicans in the Senate race. "I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years."

He was just 34 years old. But his fast ascent in the world of real estate was crumbling. A college drop-out, he was $20 million in debt and fending off more than a dozen subcontractors who were suing for more than $150,000 worth of unpaid bills. It wasn't just his business in shambles. After 14 years, he and his first wife divorced in 1996.

Steve Jonsson, a banker who had known Beruff for about 10 years, feared his client and friend was going under. But Jonsson said the fiery Beruff -- though he had almost no leverage -- passionately argued more time to pay his debts. Jonsson said Beruff's confidence won him over.

"He said, 'I'm never going down this road again,' " Jonsson said.

His mistakes were clear, Beruff says. "It was youth and stupidity."

It's that blunt, in-your-face language that leads to comparisons between Beruff and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

Beruff talks about "political crap" in ads, calls government appointees "morons" and "idiots," refuses to back away from labeling President Obama an "animal" and is quick to interject "hell, no" when he disagrees with a question. Beruff acknowledges a similarity to Trump in that both are businessmen but says he is not trying to emulate the New York billionaire.

For one, Beruff wasn't born rich like Trump. So he said he had to make some hard choices to recover from his near-bankruptcy, including moving out of his home to a cheaper rental. It took five years of working with creditors and bankers to recover.

"Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made," said Beruff, now 58.

He and his allies point to that relentless attitude as critical to his success in business, which in turn led him into politics and even gave him a second chance at marriage.

"When he commits to do something, he is very focused and methodical," said Tramm Hudson, a Sarasota banker who became a friend and political mentor.

But critics say Beruff is driven not just to win but to destroy the careers of his enemies -- from a community college president in Bradenton to a 22-year county commission incumbent in Manatee County.

"He's a political bully," said Joe McClash, who is an ex-Manatee County commissioner largely because of Beruff's spending $60,000 for campaign ads that helped defeat McClash.

Cuban connections

When Beruff launched his campaign for the Senate in February he did so in his birthplace, Miami, underscoring his parents' background as Cuban refugees.

In early 1957, Fidel Castro had not yet taken power. But Sylvia Vilarello and Marco Tulio Beruff were in hiding because they were involved in the failed attacks on the presidential palace in Havana. To avoid capture the couple fled to Miami. Nine months later, on New Year's Day in 1958, Carlos Miguel Beruff was born. The family returned to Cuba after Castro came to power, but Beruff's mother brought him back to Miami in 1961. His father, whom he would not see for decades, stayed behind.

In 1970, his mother remarried Carlos Tepedino, a Coral Gables jeweler who ran La Diadem Jewelers in the Havana Hilton prior to the Castro regime's takeover. In the 1950s, Tepedino, whom Beruff considers his father, worked with the CIA and tried to recruit an assassin to kill Castro, declassified CIA records show.

Beruff and his parents moved to New York when he was 12 but returned to Florida in 1973 to finish high school and attend college, though he never received a degree. Beruff turned to the jewelry business, first in Tampa then in New York City.

Beruff said New York wasn't working for his girlfriend, Christine DeSantis, whom he describes as a small town girl from Ohio who would become his first wife in 1982.

"New York was just overwhelming," Beruff said. "She was going to leave. So when you are in love you just, you know -- we were going back to Tampa."

His career in jewelry ended in 1980 thanks to a newspaper ad. U.S. Home was looking for a salesman in Sarasota.

"I knew nothing about selling houses," Beruff said. "I couldn't even spell mortgage."

But Beruff said the ads promised $3,000 a month, plus commission. Given he was making $28,000 a year, Beruff said the path was clear.

Though a young guy selling homes in a retirement village, Beruff had a knack for it, said Pat Neal, a Manatee County developer who met Beruff in the early 1980s as a competitor.

"It was his directness," Neal said, adding that Beruff was selling homes where others failed.

Beruff created Medallion Home in 1984 and teamed with Neal on projects that "made me a lot of money," Neal said.

But Beruff's home-building career hasn't been without controversy. In 2010, Medallion was identified as having used defective Chinese-made drywall in some homes. More than 7,000 homes in the U.S. have been reported to have the drywall, which studies have shown emitted sulfur gas that can corrode electrical wiring and trigger respiratory irritation. Medallion was part of a national class-action lawsuit resolved in 2012 that ordered Medallion and others to fix damaged homes.

After Beruff launched his campaign, a rival Republican in the Senate race, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis (no relation to Christine DeSantis) created a website accusing Beruff of "shady" business practices because of the issue.

Second chances

Beruff's rejuvenated career also brought him another chance at marriage. In 2010, after two years of dating, he remarried. When they first met, Janelle Knight was a civil engineer for a Medallion subcontractor. Beruff dismisses the 22-year age gap between the couple, saying, "She's so much more mature than I am."

The couple now has a 2-year-old boy and they are expecting another child this summer. Beruff also has an 18-year-old son.

Business rebirth also led to politics. From 2001 to 2006, Beruff handed out more than $73,000 to politicians. The biggest recipient then was Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist. Though campaign laws barred people from giving more than $500, Beruff used 17 business entities he controls to give $36,000 to Crist and the Republican Party of Florida, which was under Crist's direction after he won the primary.

Beruff has put more than $1 million into political campaigns since 2001.

It's paid off in appointments. In 2008, Crist appointed him to the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport Authority, a water management board and the State College of Florida board of trustees. Gov. Rick Scott re-appointed Beruff, who donated almost $100,000 to his campaigns and political action committee, to all three boards and put him in charge of one of his pet projects -- a commission to ferret out waste in hospital spending.

In 2011, State College of Florida board member Beruff focused his attention on college president Lars Hafner. He questioned Hafner's salary and benefits and probed spending on the school's tennis center and a struggling charter school, both championed by Hafner, a Democrat and former state legislator.

Beruff even personally hired a handwriting expert to try to prove Hafner forged documents, that Hafner said he signed with permission. Hafner told the Tampa Bay Times in 2013 that Beruff warned him in a private meeting to resign or he'd destroy his career -- a threat Beruff denies making. Although a state law enforcement report cleared Hafner of wrongdoing, the board, with Beruff at the helm, pursued Hafner's ouster until he resigned.

Beruff bristles at accusations that he was on a witch hunt. "There was no personal vendetta," he said.

He has a similar response when asked about McClash. Beruff said the former Manatee County Commissioner, a Republican, had become like a Democrat in pushing to restrict development. Beruff put more than $61,000 into the campaign for Republican Betsy Benac and into a political action committee that ran ads against McClash, who lost in 2012 by 494 votes.

"He's a dangerous man," said McClash, who also compared Beruff to a dictator who refuses to ease up on anything until he gets his way.

Beruff said none of his political fights are personal. He called McClash a career politician who lost his way. It's not unlike a philosophy Beruff brings to his Senate race. In ads he rails against career politicians and says his outsider approach will clean up Washington. After decades of giving money to others to get the job done, he decided it was time for him to try.

It's very much patterned after Scott, whom Beruff praises for bringing an outsiders view to Tallahassee as governor. Scott frequently tells business leaders to follow his path and run for office. Beruff said Scott didn't directly tell him to run, but acknowledges Scott's success encouraged him.

Scott says he has no favorite in the race, but his actions hint at some partiality. At a Republican Party event in Sarasota last month, Scott, a former hospital executive, heaped praise on Beruff and detailed his work on the college board and water management district as evidence of him saving taxpayers' money.

"I want to wish Carlos Beruff unbelievable success," Scott said.

Days earlier in Pasco County, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who is also running for the Senate, was in the audience when Scott spoke, but received scant recognition from his boss. When it was time for Lopez-Cantera to speak, Scott was making his way to a back exit through the kitchen.

Contact Jeremy Wallace at jwallace@tampabay.com or (850) 224-7263. Follow @jeremyswallace.

Carlos Miguel Beruff, 58, homebuilder/developer Republican Lives in Parrish. Born in Miami. Experience: Beruff spent 35 years in the home-building business, first as a salesman and now running his own land development company. He has never held elective office but in 2008 was appointed by then Gov. Charlie Crist to Sarasota Bradenton Airport Authority, Southwest Florida Water Management District board, and State College of Florida's Board of Trustees. Education: After graduating from a boarding school in Howey-in-the-Hills, Beruff attended Stetson University then the University of South Florida but did not earn a degree. Family: Married; two children, 18 and 2. Net worth: Beruff has filed an extension to file his personal financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate but told the National Journal that his businesses are worth between $150 million and $200 million. Why he's running: "It's time to get rid of the Washington political class and bring in a whole new crop of people who will not accept the failures of our federal government, and who won't take no for an answer."

Some Clewiston residents may be familiar with the local Clewiston Performing Arts Center commonly referred to as CPAC. This organization was formed in the year 2000, and the coming school year will be its 16th year of operation. CPAC just celebrated its 15th recital as the group “Danced Down Memory Lane.” Songs were selected from the favorites through the years, and this year's show was a huge success.

A record crowd attended opening night on Saturday, May 30 at the Clewiston High School auditorium, and the board of directors and instructors appreciated the audience's patience as additional seating was arranged to accommodate all the spectators. A few high school administrators were present to help get things set, and CPAC would like to express its appreciation for their assistance.

The success of our program is due primarily to the contributions of the City of Clewiston, the Clewiston High School, the volunteers, the board of directors, and most importantly... the instructors. The time spent with children of our community is a valuable endeavor.

CPAC, a not-for-profiorganization, presents scholarships to any of its graduating seniors. Our first scholarship was awarded in 2005. In 2009,five seniors were presented with scholarships, followed directly by five more seniors in 2010, and one in 2011. This group of dancers performed together for many years, most of them starting at 3 years of age. In addition to dance, these students excelled in many other areas. They were cheer leaders, soccer players, softball players, FFA members, honor students, and more who achieved a variety of successes throughout high school. This entire class of dancers has now graduated from college with a bachelor's degree, and half of them are currently continuing toward a master's degree or other form of higher education. Not many groups can boast a 100% graduation rate!

While they were in our dance program these young women all juggled very busy schedules at Clewiston High School, managed to come to their own dance classes, and also assist the instructors in classes with the smaller children. We are very proud to acknowledge these members of our organization, because without them CPAC would not be the organization it is today.

Kristi McCarthy 2009-Received a bachelor's degree in Health Education from the University of Florida and a bachelor's degree in nursing from Remington College. She is currently working as a registered nurse at Hendry Regional Medical Center and taking classes to receive her nurse practitioner's degree. Kristi is getting married in June 2016.

Kylie Pencarinha Stone 2009-Attended the University of South Florida where she majored in communications and minored in dance. She is now married and has two children. Kylie resides in Clewiston and is currently a fifth grade teacher and a CPAC dance instructor.

Rachelle Spry York 2009-Attended the University of Florida and earned a degree in Agriculture Education and Communication. She is currently working for a construction company in their safety department, and resides in Tennessee with her husband.

Marla Teixeira 2009-Graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in Animal Science and a minor in Business Administration. She is currently studying at St. George's University School of Veterinary Medicine in the West Indies.

Sarah Espinoza 2010-Earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, a master's degree in Sport & Exercise Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and will begin a doctoral program in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Minnesota this fall.

Lindsey Grooms 2010-Graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. Lindsey currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is completing a master's degree in behavioral studies at Saint Leo University.

Brandi Herring 2010-Graduated from Stetson University, where she majored in marketing. She is working as an executive assistant while training to become a personal trainer. Brandi currently resides in Colorado, and she is getting married in May 2016.

Katharine Whidden 2010-Katie graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Agricultural Education & Communication. Katie resides in Sebring where she is the Highlands County 4H Agent. She is working on her master's degree and getting married in Nov 2016.

Taylor Beebe 2011-Earned a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from Florida Atlantic University. Taylor resides in Clewiston and is currently a first grade teacher at Westside Elementary and a CPAC dance instructor.

CPAC is proud to have awarded two more scholarships in 2015 to Anessa Leyva and Jordan Pencarinha. Anessa attends Siena College in New York. She is majoring in Actuarial

Science and was recruited to play for Siena College Women's Tennis Team. Jordan attends Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She is majoring in communication and is an active member of the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority.

This year's CPAC scholarship recipients are Alyssa Avant, Adrianna Diaz, and Marissa Espino.

Alyssa plans on attending the University of Central Florida to major in Nursing in hopes of becoming a Neonatal Nurse. Alyssa says she has loved being involved in CPAC because she has been able to watch herself and her classmates grow as dancers and as people. She says working at CPAC has taught her discipline, responsibility, and how to work with children. Alyssa has loved every minute she has spent at CPAC.

Adrianna plans on attending Palm Beach State College in the fall and continuing her education at Florida Atlantic University to double major in Art and Psychology in hopes of becoming an Art Therapist. Adriana says that what she has always loved about CPAC are the relationships she has built.

Marissa plans on attending Palm Beach State College before transferring to Southeastern University to major in Nursing and minor in Performing Arts. She hopes to one day become a pediatric nurse. Marissa said dance has always been something she has enjoyed and being involved in CPAC has allowed her to show her love and passion for dance.

CPAC has awarded over $16,000 in scholarship funds through the years. Part of our mission statement reflects the students we have been graduating for the last few years:

“We hope that all students will gain a respect for the arts and all other areas taught at the studio while also learning life lessons about respecting each other, discipline, and the importance of setting goals and obtaining them. We strive for our students to develop schedule management, punctuality, cooperation, while maintaining respect for others and themselves.”

Have a great summer, and see you in September!

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

"Big data" is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, with the Precision Medicine Initiative and numerous other quality initiatives seeking de-identified information to improve care. Some ethical concerns include the following:

Even de-identified data carries privacy risks. Individuals who volunteer their data don't always benefit. With "blanket" consents, data could later be used in a way that is objectionable to the individual.

President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative seeks 1 million volunteers to share genetic data and biological samples. The goal is to develop targeted approaches to diseases - but there are important ethical implications as well, says Melinda C. Hall, PhD, an assistant professor of philosophy at Stetson University in Deland, FL.

"While we clearly know the importance of an individual's right to privacy and informed consent, we know less about the benefit to the public good of massive, aggregated health data," says Hall.

Hall names the following two important ethical questions:

� Will those who volunteer their data benefit or be fairly compensated?

� Who controls the data once it is collected?

The promise of huge advances in health and medicine from whole genome sequencing is still relatively unfulfilled. "And it may remain so," adds Hall. "We should not be duped into skipping over concerns about informed consent and privacy rights for speculative goods."

Current regulations on research and patient privacy don't require consent for de-identified data. "So if it's de-identified, you can use it. But patients may still object that they don't want their data used," says Sharona Hoffman, JD, professor of law and bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland.

There is a question as to whether data can ever really be de-identified. Publicly available information, such as voter registration records, might enable experts to link de-identified data to individuals in some cases.

"People should be aware that their data can be put to lots of uses that they might not know about," says Hoffman. One example is "data brokers" who mine data from numerous publicly available sources, including hospital discharge records, and sell it to interested parties. "There are questions about whether privacy is adequately maintained," says Hoffman. This can lead to discrimination, or people being harassed by aggressive marketers.

Some argue that if individuals choose to withhold their data from research, they become "free riders" benefiting from medical research without contributing. "People are grappling right now with whether, and to what degree, the common good should prevail over individual autonomy," says Hoffman.

One question is whether it's ethically permissible for researchers to obtain a "blanket" consent for de-identified data that's likely to be used for numerous purposes in the future.

"You are basically providing consent and not knowing what it will be used for," says Hoffman. "Is that meaningful, or should you be contacted every time a researcher wants to use the data for a new project?" A patient might willingly consent to his or her data being used for a particular research project. That same person might vehemently object to the data being used years later for cloning or stem cell research.

"There will have to be more public education," says Hoffman. "The public needs to understand the huge amount that we can do in terms of records-based research, but also understand the risks."

Distributive justice is the primary ethical issue with use of de-identified health data, in Hall's view. "The individuals and populations from whom data is collected should, eventually, benefit from the collection of that data," she says.

In some cases, individuals aren't even aware their health data is being collected. This raises concerns about informed consent. "When data is collected from individuals who have not consented to the data's use in research, that data is unethically used," says Hall.

Engaging in a clinical trial, which itself has no therapeutic value, is a different matter than allowing the collection of one's data after lab work or during clinical visits, says Hall.

"Yet, the data collected is a primary driver of profit for corporations, including those in the pharmaceutical industry," Hall says. Those from whom the data is collected are not being paid. In some cases, they pay to share it.

"So one distributive question is: Why don't those who provide data profit from data?" says Hall.

For example, thousands of consumers pay to share their genomic data with 23andMe, a company that sells limited genetic analysis, but also acts as a massive biobank of that genetic data. Individual users send in a saliva sample and can choose to answer a variety of survey questions regarding lifestyle. "This valuable genetic data and related health data contributes to 23andMe's billion-dollar valuation, while users do not profit-share," says Hall.

Data should benefit those from whom it is collected, says Hall - either in terms of monetary compensation or health-related benefits. The widely publicized 2013 publication of Henrietta Lacks' genome without permission from her descendants brought this issue to the spotlight.1

"A highly profitable immortalized cell line resulted from her biopsy," notes Hall. "This health data is used in research, yet does not benefit those from whom the data was collected."

De-identified health data should benefit the public and future generations, says Hall, "while at the same time providing tangible benefit for the person whose data is collected.”

REFERENCE Andrews BJ, DePellegrin T. HeLa sequencing and genomic privacy: The next chapter. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2013; 3(8):vii. SOURCESMelinda C. Hall, PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stetson University, Deland, FL. Phone: (386) 740-2507. Fax: (386) 822-7582. Email: mchall@stetson.edu.Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law & Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland. Phone: (216) 368-3860. Email: sxh90@case.edu.

Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., issued the following news release:

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the appointments of Michelle L. Naberhaus and Thomas J. Brown to the Brevard County Court.

Naberhaus, 41, of Merritt Island, has practiced with Dean Mean, P.A., since 2015. She was previously a Sole Practitioner for Michelle L. Naberhaus, P.L., from 2013-2015, and a Shareholder with GrayRobinson, P.A., from 2010-2012. Naberhaus received both her bachelor's degree and her law degree from the University of Florida. She fills a vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Cathleen B. Clarke.

Brown, 52, of Melbourne, is an Assistant State Attorney for the State Attorney's Office in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. He was previously an Attorney for the Law Office of Howard Allen in 1992. Brown received his bachelor's degree from Eckerd College and his law degree from Stetson University College of Law. He fills a vacancy created by the Supreme Court's Order in Case No. SC14-1582.

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FLAGLER COUNTY HISTORY

Claude Grady Varn was born Aug. 24, 1890, in Polk County and died Jan. 5, 1927, in St. Augustine. He married Marjorie A Boor on June 10, 1915. Both are buried in Espanola Cemetery.

Varn received a general education in the public schools of Fort Mead, Florida and after completing high school there, matriculated at Stetson University in DeLand from which he graduated with a bachelor of laws degree in the class of 1914, according to a biographical sketch prepared by Sisco Deen, archivist with the Flagler County Historical Society. That same year, Varn was admitted to the state bar and became associated with the law firm of Landis, Fish and Hull in DeLand. He continued with the firm for three years before moving to Bunnell in July 1917.

Varn moved his small family into the Moody residence at the corner of Moody Boulevard and Main Street. Two months later he was appointed local attorney for the Florida East Coast Railway, taking charge of all the legal matters for the system in Flagler County.

Varn was appointed attorney for the Flagler County Board of Public Instruction and attorney for the Board of County Commissioners (1917-1926) by Gov. Sidney Johnston Catts. He also was the attorney for the City of Bunnell when the county was formed.

Varn was active in the 1920s in furthering the construction of Ocean Shore Boulevard, now known as State Road A1A, from St Augustine to Daytona Beach and south, including the Mantanzas Inlet Bridge.

Varn was associated with Judge Fish in numerous real estate investments in St Johns and Flagler counties and he founded and owned several corporations instrumental in the development of northeast Florida.

-- Aaron London

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New Smyrna Beach Mayor Jim Hathaway

New Smyrna Beach Mayor Jim Hathaway has announced that he will run for reelection this fall -- making him the second board member to announce his bid.

Hathaway, 63, was first elected to the City Commission in 1994. He was elected four times to the Zone 3 seat, which covers the northwestern part of the city, and he also served five terms as vice mayor for the city before he was elected into the mayor's seat in 2014. Hathaway stepped down from his commission seat in 2012 to run for the District 3 seat on the Volusia County Council -- a race in which he was defeated by now Councilwoman Deb Denys.

Hathaway and current Commissioner Jason McGuirk are the only two who have filed for the election this fall. McGuirk, who was elected in 2012, will be seeking a second term as commissioner for Zone 3. Commissioner Kirk Jones' seat is also open this fall, but Jones has not filed for reelection or announced his plans.

In a statement regarding his candidacy, Hathaway said in his first term he specifically promised to replace the bleachers at the New Smyrna Beach Sports Complex, fix the flooding issues in the Islesboro neighborhood and actively work toward fixing the traffic problems in New Smyrna.

"I'm proud to say the bleachers are fixed, the flooding issue is substantially better, and we are actively working to improve our traffic problem," Hathaway said. "There is more work to be done, but I am confident that with the dedicated group on this commission, we will accomplish our goals and improve the quality of life for all New Smyrnans."

About Hathaway:

* A New Smyrna Beach native, Hathaway graduated from New Smyrna Beach High School in 1971 and is a 1975 graduate of Stetson University, earning a degree in business administration.

* Hathaway has owned and operated a Pepperidge Farm franchise since 1991, and he ran Hathaway's Food Store on Flagler Avenue in New Smyrna prior to that, which was originally opened by his father William S. Hathaway, the late former mayor of the city.

* Hathaway served in the United States Army Reserves as a captain in the Quartermaster Corps and was honorably discharged.

* Hathaway and his wife Paula have been married for 35 years, with four children and four grandchildren.