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Clay pigeon may refer to: * the target of the sport of clay pigeon shooting * Clay pigeon floor procedure, a strategy used in the U.S. Senate * ''The Clay Pigeon'', a 1949 film noir * ''Clay Pigeons'', a 1998 film * ''Clay Pigeon'' (film), a 1971 American action film * "Clay Pigeon", a song by binki on the 2021 EP ''Motor Function Motor control is the regulation of movement in organisms that possess a nervous system. Motor control includes reflexes as well as directed movement. To control movement, the nervous system must integrate multimodal sensory information (both ...
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Clay Pigeon Shooting
Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, is a shooting sport involving shooting a firearm at special flying targets known as clay pigeons, or clay targets. The terminology commonly used by clay shooters often relates to times past, when live-pigeon competitions were held. Although such competitions were made illegal in the United Kingdom in 1921, a target may still be called a "bird", a hit may be referred to as a "kill", and a missed target as a "bird away"; the machine which projects the targets is still known as a "trap". History Clay targets began to be used in place of live pigeons around 1875. Asphalt targets were later developed, but the name "clay targets" stuck. In 1893, the Inanimate Bird Shooting Association was formed in England. It was renamed to the Clay Bird Shooting Association in 1903. It held annual clay-pigeon-shooting contests and lasted until the outbreak of World War I. In 1921, the British parliament passed a bill without opposition ...
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Clay Pigeon Floor Procedure
The clay pigeon floor procedure is a rare maneuver employed to gain political leverage in the United States Senate. The name comes by analogy with the clay target which shatters when hit in skeet shooting Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. Skeet is one of the t .... In the procedure, an amendment comprising multiple proposals is shattered by demand of a single Senator into individual components to be discussed separately. By pre-agreement, a vote to limit total debate on the amendment is taken. Requiring a supermajority of 60 votes to abbreviate debate, all components are due for vote at the end of the allotted time. Instances Two distinct goals have been recognized in the history of the procedure. Because individual features of an amendment are exposed to public airing, the process may c ...
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The Clay Pigeon
''The Clay Pigeon'' is a 1949 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman, based on a true story. The drama features Bill Williams and Barbara Hale, a real-life husband and wife. Plot Jim Fletcher (Williams), a former inmate in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, awakes from a coma at a naval hospital, and is then informed that he has been accused of murder. As Fletcher is uncertain of his guilt, he escapes from the hospital to search for his best friend, another ex-POW. Cast * Bill Williams as Jim Fletcher * Barbara Hale as Martha Gregory * Richard Quine as Ted Niles * Richard Loo as Ken Tokoyama aka The Weasel * Frank Fenton as Lt. Cmdr. Prentice * Frank Wilcox as Navy Hospital Doctor * Marya Marco as Helen Minoto * Robert Bray as Gunsel Blake * Martha Hyer as Miss Harwick, Wheeler's Receptionist * Harold Landon as Blind Veteran * James Craven as John Wheeler Depiction of Japanese Americans Although the movie shows Jim's Japanese captors as ex ...
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Clay Pigeons
''Clay Pigeons'' is a 1998 black comedy film written by Matt Healy and directed by David Dobkin. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, and Janeane Garofalo. It is the second film on-screen collaboration between Vaughn and Phoenix, the first film being '' Return to Paradise'', released in the same year. Plot Clay Bidwell, a young man living in Montana, witnesses his friend Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the Earl's adulterous wife Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists Amanda's advances when she presses him to continue with their affair as if nothing has happened. After a jealous Amanda kills a waitress Clay briefly dates, he inadvertently befriends Lester Long, who happens to be a serial killer. Lester murders the nagging Amanda in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy", leaving Clay horrified. Soon enough, FBI agent Dale Shelby and her partner Reynard come to town and zero in on Clay as the prime suspect. Cast * Joaquin ...
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Clay Pigeon (film)
''Clay Pigeon'' is a 1971 American action film directed by Lane Slate and Tom Stern and written by Ronald Buck, Jack Gross, Jr. and Buddy Ruskin. The film stars Tom Stern, Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, John Marley, Burgess Meredith and Ivan Dixon. The film was released on August 1971, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot A Vietnam War veteran (Stern) has been using illegal drugs, but eventually decides that he wants to escape that life. But before he can leave it behind, a CIA narcotics agent (Savalas) recruits him to go undercover in Los Angeles to help expose other ex-soldiers who are involved in drug dealing and drug kingpin Neilson (Vaughn). Cast * Tom Stern as Joe Ryan * Telly Savalas as Redford * Robert Vaughn as Neilson * John Marley as Police Captain * Burgess Meredith as Freedom Lovelace * Ivan Dixon as Simon * Jeff Corey as Clinic Doctor * Marilyn Akin as Angeline * Marlene Clark as Saddle * Belinda Palmer as Tracy * Mario Alcalde as Jason * Peter Lawford as Government A ...
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