Moje życie z Przygodą! – Sławek Makaruk
Bydgoski Klub Podróżnika zaprasza 16 stycznia 2020 roku
na prelekcję w Budynku K, Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki, godz. 18.00
Makaron – podróżnik, fotograf, zawodowy nurek, kierownik wypraw (m.in. programu podróżniczego TVP2 Boso przez świat), instruktor nurkowania, ratownik ochotnik TOPR, instruktor jazdy offroadowej. Swoją pierwszą wyprawę odbył w 1983 roku. Z kolegami z Warszawskiego Klubu Płetwonurków pojechał Tarpanem do Meksyku. Pracował jako poławiacz czarnego koralu na Morzu Karaibskim i na statku rybackim na Islandii.
W roku 1991 wygrał polskie eliminacje do rajdu Camel Trophy – ekstremalnego rajdu odbywającego się w różnych częściach kuli ziemskiej, uznawanego za najtrudniejszy rajd offroadowy na świecie. Członek pierwszej polskiej ekipy uczestniczącej w rajdzie w Tanzanii i Burundi, a do roku 1996 organizator polskich i europejskich selekcji Camel Trophy. Od 1997 roku organizował selekcje w Polsce dla Marlboro Adventure Team. Kierownik wielu wypraw do odległych rejonów świata, takich jak: Vanuatu, Tajlandia, Nepal, Sudan, Egipt, Meksyk, Belize.
Zorganizował swoją wyprawę w góry Subpolarnego Uralu, gdzie po przemierzeniu 400 km pieszo odbył 20-dniowy spływ tratwą. Na przestrzeni lat 2001–2005 organizował dla zagranicznych partnerów wyprawy w poszukiwaniu skarbów na morzach południowych, wykorzystując swój statek „Harpooner”. Poprowadził także kilka ekspedycji ekip filmowych do Tunezji i północnej Afryki. Współuczestniczył w produkcji wielu programów telewizyjnych dla Macieja i Włodzimierza Zientarskich oraz sportów ekstremalnych jako konsultant i uczestnik prób, m.in. do ponad 30 odcinków programu TVN Dla ciebie wszystko. Był kierownikiem wypraw Wojciecha Cejrowskiego po całym świecie – organizował logistykę ponad 100 odcinków i czuwał nad bezpieczeństwem ekipy telewizyjnej programu Boso przez świat. Był współproducentem programu Po mojemu w TVN Style oraz współprowadzącym wraz z Katarzyną Pakosińską programu Ekstremalna Kasia. Ostatnio współpracuje z zagranicznymi stacjami TV, organizując wyprawy ekip filmowych do odległych i niebezpiecznych rejonów świata takich jak: Ekwador, Kongo, Peru, kotlina Kalahari oraz wielu innych.
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The husband of former South Carolina Gov.
Nikki Haley and brother of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn were
given shares of a company that leased slot machines to
a North Carolina tribal casino that needed political help to open last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. Clyburn’s brother and a
spokesperson for Michael Haley both said the men provided services for the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation’s casino
in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, the newspaper reported. The tribe’s leader said they met with dozens of federal
officials in a transparent and public process over more than a decade as they sought to secure permission to build the casino. The newspaper said it reviewed documents from Kings Mountain Equipment Supply LLC, which gets 20 cents for
every $1 in profits the new Catawba Two Kings Casino generates from its hundreds
of slot machines. One stake in the supply company is held by John B.
Clyburn, a brother of Rep. Clyburn. The high-ranking Democratic congressman introduced a bill that helped eliminate one
of the final hurdles to get federal permission to build the casino. Another
stake is held by Michael Haley, husband of the former Republican governor who joined
plenty of South Carolina politicians to fight against the Catawbas
being able to open a casino in South Carolina.
That led the tribe to its ultimately successful effort in North Carolina. The documents reviewed by
the newspaper show both men hold less than a 1% claim in the company. Michael Haley was
given his share as payment for his company doing physical and cybersecurity consulting for the project
in 2018, a statement from his company said. Nikki Haley was U.N.
Ambassador for the U.S. at that time after leaving the governor’s office a year earlier before her term ended. As governor,
Haley was against the Catawbas opening a South Carolina
casino. She attended the 2021 groundbreaking in North Carolina, but her office said she was only acting as her husband’s guest and never advocated to get
federal approval for the North Carolina site. John Clyburn told
the newspaper he consulted on the project on and off for a decade introducing backers to people he knew,
adding „I doubt that I discussed” the project with his brother. John Clyburn received his share from the slot machine leasing company in September 2013, about a week after
the Catawbas first asked for federal approval for
the casino, the newspaper reported.
He said he was surprised once the casino opened to get seven or eight
payments from the company ranging from $600 to $1,300. Rep.
James Clyburn said he did not know about his brother’s financial interest in the casino and the two never talked about
the project. The congressman said his sponsorship of the bill that cleared the path for the casino was to help the tribe which has
been long neglected. If his brother is profiting from
a bill he helped get enacted, Rep.
Clyburn told The Wall Street Journal, „I don´t care. He gets to make a living. I don´t get his permission, and I don´t give him mine.” The Catawba
Indian Nation has about 3,600 members and a 1,000-acre reservation near Rock Hill, South Carolina. The
1993 National Indian Gaming Act exempted the Catawbas from a list of tribes that
could open casinos in states like South Carolina that don´t normally allow gambling. The Catawbas spent decades
trying to work around the law and after years of resistance from
South Carolina lawmakers, switched their efforts in 2013 to opening in North
Carolina, where they said their ancestors held land before Europeans came to North America. The Kings Mountain, North Carolina,
casino has about 1,000 slot machines in temporary buildings and doubled its floor plan after being open less than six months.
The Catawbas plan a permanent facility with a 29-story hotel that could triple the number of
slot machines. Catawba Chief Bill Harris said the tribe is working
with the National Indian Gaming Commission about unspecified problems
that have held up the start of construction on the permanent casino. The
stakes held by Michael Haley and John Clyburn aren’t with Kings Mountain Equipment Supply LLC
itself, but instead with a different company called AGS of North Carolina LLC that itself had a
10.1% stake in Kings Mountain Equipment Supply, according
to the documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.