* Loach minnow, a species of the genus Rhinichthys

Loach minnow are short-lived fishes, depending on their environment and different characteristics of individual population.

Loach minnow can be found at turbulent, rocky riffles of mainstream rivers.

Loach minnow was proposed ( USDI, Fish and Wildlife Service 1985 ) and subsequently listed ( USFWS 1986 ) as a threatened species.

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His son Jim Loach has also become a television and film director.

Loach values having a strong, creative partnership with scriptwriters, most recently with Paul Laverty, who has written nine feature films for Loach ( including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Sweet Sixteen ), and previously with Jim Allen ( Land & Freedom ) and Barry Hines ( Kes ).

Loach has also expressed strong support for Chechen independence from Russia.

Loach has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Bath, the University of Birmingham, Staffordshire University, and Keele University.

Fenton has scored more feature films for Ken Loach than for any other director ; by March 2009, a total of ten.

" While such controversy may now seem strange, Loach has admitted that " e were very anxious for our plays not to be considered dramas but as continuations of the news " which preceded The Wednesday Play < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s slot.

However, Ken Loach has said that despite the public outcry following the play, it had little practical effect in reducing homelessness, other than changing rules so that homeless fathers could stay with their wives & children in hostels.

His music has often been used by film directors, including Ken Loach and Jean-Luc Godard.

An historical event, the bloody fight between Republicans and Anarchists for controlling the Telefónica building in Barcelona, has been chosen by Loach as an emblem of this internal conflict ( See Barcelona May Days ).

Throughout the 2000s Loach continued to intersperse wider political dramas such as Bread and Roses ( which focused on the Los Angeles janitors strike ) and Route Irish ( set in the Iraq occupation ) with smaller examinations of personal relationships.

Loach lives with his wife, Lesley, in Bath, where he is a supporter of and shareholder in Bath City F. C.

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

In May 2009, organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival returned a £ 300 grant from the Israeli Embassy after speaking with Ken Loach.

" Loach said he had a " respectful and reasoned " conversation with event organisers, saying they should not be accepting funds from Israel.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

* Interview with Loach about My Name is Joe

* Interview with Loach from 1998

* Interview with Ken Loach, interview about Route Irish in the Oxonian Review

Zebra Loach ( Botia striata ) with the fusiform shape typical of Botiinae

In 1964 he and Kenneth Adam initiated the new anthology series The Wednesday Play, a BBC equivalent of Armchair Theatre, which had great success and critical acclaim with plays written and directed by the likes of Dennis Potter, Jeremy Sandford and Ken Loach.

Gerrard also scored the Jim Loach directed Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving released in April 2011 which garnered her with another nomination at the 2011 IF Awards for Best Music Score.

The remaining originals, Deas and Challenger, continued to perform, along with guitarist Paul Dixon ( a member since December 2008 ), and new members Andy Pelos ( lead vocals ), Dean Loach ( keyboards ) and Rob Hewins ( drums ).

Director Ken Loach formed his long-standing association with Garnett on The Wednesday Play and made ten plays in all for the series.

Loach employed a realistic documentary style, using predominantly 16mm film on location, which contrasted with the vast amount of BBC drama of the time, which was commonly made in the electronic television studio.

Along with other Loach films, it is currently available to watch on Loach's YouTube channel.

It was rated with four stars out of five possible in the British film magazine Empire, where reviewer Michael Hayden praised the performance by Oksana Akinshina while comparing the film to both the social realism of Ken Loach, and " the darkest of fairy tales, complete with wicked aunts and guardian angels.

In an open letter to Ms Shalom Ezer, Ken Loach wrote " From the beginning, Israel and its supporters have attacked their critics as anti-semites or racists.

* Ken Loach, the film director, who is an elected member of its national council.

The film, directed by British filmmaker Ken Loach, received critical acclaim after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film is anchored in part by its setting in the kind of milieu more common to classic British kitchen-sink dramas or the films of Ken Loach than to anything this emotionally tender.

Lyricist Chris Difford said that the title phrase was lifted from the 1965 TV play version of the novel, directed by Ken Loach, and its subsequent 1968 movie remake.

The works of these participants appeared in Citylights Journal 1, 2 and 3 published between 1964 and 1966, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and in special issues of American magazines including Kulchur edited by Lita Hornick, Klactoveedsedsteen edited by Carl Weissner, El Corno Emplunado edited by Margaret Randall, Evergreen Review edited by Barney Rosset, Salted Feathersedited by Dick Bakken, Intrepid edited by Alan De Loach, and San Francisco Earthquake, during the 1960s.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

Kenneth " Ken " Loach ( born 17 June 1936 ) is a Palme D ' Or winning English film and television director.

Loach was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien ( née Hamlin ) and John Loach.

In 1966, Loach made the influential docudrama Cathy Come Home portraying working-class people affected by homelessness and unemployment, and presenting a powerful and influential critique of the workings of the Social Services.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

The programmes were not broadcast by Channel 4, a decision Loach claimed was politically motivated.

Ken Loach and His Films.

" Land and Freedom " contains a quintessentially Loach sequence of a 12 minute political discussion amongst villagers trying to decide whether or not a village's smallholdings should be collectivized.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.

The film competed for the Palme d ' Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where Loach won the Jury Prize.

Ken Loach at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

De Sica's film had a particularly profound effect on Loach.

Loach makes great efforts to help the actors express themselves naturally and honestly.

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

" This explains how Loach regards politics and drama as intertwined, rather than existing in separate spheres.

A member of the Labour Party from the early 1960s, Loach left in the mid-1990s.