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"Jairaj Moreshwar Phatak, an IAS officer of 1978 batch, served as the 25th municipal commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India from May 2007 to October 2009. He succeeded Johny Joseph as the Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai in May 2007. Early life and education He graduated with an M. Sc. from IIT Bombay. He later obtained a post-graduate degree from Harvard University. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Mumbai in 2004. Career Earlier, he served as the Principal Secretary in Urban Development department of Maharashtra Government. During his tenure as Secretary, school education department was lauded for the efforts he undertook to improve welfare of students. Phatak was posted, as a Collector Nagpur, Municipal Commissioner, Mumbai or managing director of the rural electrification corporation, Mr. Phatak retired from service on 31 March 2015 after more than three and a half decades. Earlier Maharashtra government had suspended IAS officers Jairaj Phatak and Pradeep Vyas for their alleged involvement in the Adarsh housing society scam. He was accused of illegally approving apartment constructions in exchange for kickbacks including getting a flat illegally allocated for his son. These flats were originally meant for war widows. The case continues. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/jairaj-phatak-ramanand-tiwari- arrested-in-adarsh-society-case/ References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Indian civil servants Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Indian Institute of Technology Bombay alumni Category:Municipal Commissioners of India Category:Mumbai civic officials "
"CKCB-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 95.1 MHz in Collingwood, Ontario, with an adult contemporary format branded on-air as 95.1 The Peak FM. The station began broadcasting in 1965 on 1400 kHz, until it moved to its current frequency in 1994.Decision CRTC 94-627 The station went through different ownerships over the years and in 2000 was acquired by Corus Entertainment. The original on-air personality, who signed on CKCB at a community reception held at the Collingwood Shriner's Hall on the evening of Tuesday October 12, 1965 was Jim Craig, who went on to enjoy a successful Radio and TV career in SW Ontario and Western Canada prior to moving into teaching. Currently, he is a Professor of Broadcast Studies with the faculty of the Seneca College School of Media at York University in Toronto. Rosemarie Hergott-Henderson and Bob Robinson (Sales) rounded out the sign-on staff of CKCB, and Bill Bramah joined as an announcer after 6 months, and later became well known as host of Global TV's "Bill Bramah's Ontario" and as an historical author. Longtime broadcaster and former morning man John Nichols started at CKCB in 1971. John has received countless awards for his years of service to the Southern Georgian Bay area and he's active with many community organizations. He retired in December 2012. References External links * 95.1 The Peak Kcb Kcb Kcb Category:Collingwood, Ontario Category:Radio stations established in 1965 Category:1965 establishments in Ontario "
"The tractrac chat (Emarginata tractrac) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in southernmost Angola, western Namibia and western South Africa. Its habitat is Karoo and desert scrub, hummock dunes and gravel plains. Taxonomy The tractrac chat was illustrated and described by the French naturalist François Levaillant in Volume 4 of his Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique published in 1805. He named the bird, "Le tractrac", an onomatopoeia based on its call. The first formal description of the tractrac chat was by the English publisher John Wilkes in 1817 under the binomial name Motacilla tractrac. The title page is dated 1819. The species was subsequently placed in the genus Cercomela introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856. It was moved to its current genus, Emarginata, after molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2010 and 2012 found that Cercomela was polyphyletic. There are 5 subspecies: * E. t. hoeschi (Niethammer, 1955) – southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia * E. t. albicans (Wahlberg, 1855) – western Namibia * E. t. barlowi (Roberts, 1937) – southern Namibia * E. t. nebulosa (Clancey, 1962) – southwestern Namibia * E. t. tractrac (Wilkes, 1817) – western South Africa Description The tractrac chat is 14–15 cm long with a weight of 20 g. Its tail is white with a dark inverted “T” at the tip, reminiscent of the pattern shown by several wheatears. The short straight bill and the legs and feet are black. It has a dark eye. The Namib form found on hummock dunes and at the coast has almost white plumage with grey wings and grey tail marking. The south-eastern form, found in gravel plains has brown upperparts with blackish flight feathers and tail markings. Its underparts are white. The sexes are similar, but the juvenile is more mottled than the adult. This species is smaller than the Karoo chat which also has the white of the outer tail feathers extending to the tip. It is paler and greyer than Familiar and sickle-winged chats, both of which have a darker rump. The tractrac chat has a soft fast "tactac" song and a loud chattering territorial defence call. Behaviour The tractrac chat builds a cup-shaped nest of straw and leaves on the ground, usually under a bush or shrub. It lays two to three red eggs. This species is monogamous, mating for life. It is usually seen singly or in pairs. It forages from the ground for insects including butterflies, bees, wasps, locusts and ants. Prey is typically taking in a short flight. Conservation status This common species has a large range, with an estimated extent of 1,000,000 km². The population size is believed to be large, and the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. References * Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) *Birds of Southern Africa External links * Tractrac chat - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. * Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the tractrac chat tractrac chat Category:Birds of Southern Africa tractrac chat "