Look up shift in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Shift generally means to change (position).

Shift may refer to:

• Gear shift, to change gears in a car
• Shift work, an employment practice
• Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon
• Shift (clothing), a simple kind of undergarment

In arts and entertainment:

• Shift (music), a change of level in music
• Shift (string technique)
• Shift (magazine), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine
• Shift the Ape, a character in The Chronicles of Narnia novel series
• Shift (album), a 2004 album by a Swedish Grindcore band Nasum
• Need for Speed: Shift, a 2009 racing video game
• Shift 2: Unleashed, the 2011 sequel to the aforementioned video game
• Shift (game), an online video game series developed and presented by Armor Games.
• The Shift (film), a 2010 short film from London, England
• The Shift (song), a 'Beach Boys' song off their 1962 "Surfin' Safari" album.

In mathematics and computing:

• Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard
• Bit shift, a bitwise operator in computing
  • Barrel shifter, a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits
  • Arithmetic shift in telecommunication
  • Logical shift
  • Circular shift or bit rotation, often used in cryptography
• Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Shift"
• Red shift (disambiguation)
• Vowel shift, a change in the pronunciation of vowel sounds
• Paradigm shift, a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science
• Tax shift, a fiscal policy
• Baseball positioning, where "shift" is a strategic alteration in defenders' normal fielding locations
• Shapeshifting

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Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer in 2009
Born	(1940-05-10) May 10, 1940 (age 72) Detroit, Michigan USA
Residence	Maui, Hawaii
Occupation	teacher, author
Spouse	Divorced

Wayne Walter Dyer (born May 10, 1940) is an American self-help author and motivational speaker.

Early life and education[link]

Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Melvin Lyle (deceased) and Hazel Irene Dyer and spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit.^[1] After graduation from Denby High School Dyer served in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1962. He received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Dyer worked as a high school guidance counselor in Detroit and as a professor of counselor education at St. John's University in New York City.^[1] He pursued an academic career, published in journals and established a private therapy practice. His lectures at St. John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted many students. A literary agent persuaded Dyer to document his theories in his first book called Your Erroneous Zones. Although initial sales were thin, Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States of America, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was happening"^[2]), which eventually led to national television talk show appearances including Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, and Phil Donahue.^[1]

Dyer proceeded to build on his success with lecture tours, a series of audiotapes, and regular publication of new books. Dyer's message resonated with many in the New Thought Movement and beyond. He often recounted anecdotes from his family life, and repeatedly used his own life experience as an example. His self-made man success story was a part of his appeal.^[1] Dyer told readers to pursue self actualization, calling reliance on the self as a guide to "religious" experience, and suggested that readers emulate Jesus Christ, whom he termed both an example of a self-actualized person, and a "preacher of self-reliance".^[3] Dyer criticized societal focus on guilt, which he saw as an unhealthy immobilization in the present due to actions taken in the past. He advocated readers to see how parents, institutions, and even they, themselves, have imposed guilt trips upon themselves.^[4]

Although Dyer initially resisted the spiritual tag, by the 1990s he had altered his message to include more components of spirituality when he wrote the book Real Magic, and discussed higher consciousness, in the book Your Sacred Self.^[1][5]

Reception[link]

Dyer has been criticized for his appearances on PBS during their pledge drives and his teachings have been characterized as superficial platitudes that lack rigor and have limited practical or intellectual value.^[6]

In May 2010, author Stephen Mitchell, husband of New Age author Byron Katie, filed a suit against Dyer for plagiarism, accusing him of taking 200 lines of his interpretation of the Tao Te Ching for his books Living the Wisdom of the Tao and Change Your Thoughts -- Change Your Life.^[7]

Personal life[link]

Dyer has been married three times. He has a daughter from his first wife, Judy and none with his second wife, Susan Casselman. He had 5 children with his third wife, Marcelene, who had two children from a prior marriage. Their marriage ended in 2003 after twenty years.^{[citation needed]}

"My belief is that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like."^[8] "Religion is orthodoxy, rules and historical scriptures maintained by people over long periods of time. Generally people are raised to obey the customs and practices of that religion without question. These are customs and expectations from outside the person and do not fit my definition of spiritual."^[9]

Films[link]

• Ambition to Meaning [January 2009], rereleased as The Shift [April 2009] by Hay House
• Day & Night (2010), an animated short film created by Pixar and which was shown along with Toy Story 3 during the movie's opening in the U.S., featured an excerpt from one of Dyer's speeches^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

• List of New Thought writers
• New Age
• New Thought
• Self-help
• Spirituality

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Official Dr. Wayne Dyer Website
• Wayne Dyer On Hayhouse Radio

Video link

• Wayne Dyer Videos

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The Clutch is an American collective of songwriters responsible for a series of successful singles including Omarion's "Ice Box", Ciara's "Like a Boy", Timbaland's "The Way I Are", Britney Spears' "Radar" and Raven-Symone's "Double Dutch Bus".

History[link]

Based in Atlanta, The Clutch consists of Candice Clotiel "Gg" Nelson, Ezekiel L "(E)Zeke" Lewis, Patrick Michael "J. Que" Smith, Balewa Muhammad and Keri Lynn Hilson. Any combination of two or more of the five writers on a song is considered a track "written by The Clutch" as they rarely work as a complete fivesome. Currently the only released songs written by all members together are Keri Hilson's "Return the Favor", Bayje's "Jealous Of Your Whip", Keke Palmer's "Game Song", Bobby Valentino's "Let's Go" and Jennifer Lopez' "Wrong When You're Gone".

The Clutch promotes new record producers, including: Calvo Da Gr8 ("Like a Boy"), Bigg D ("Wrong When You're Gone"), Hit-Boy ("Forever", "Hey Young Girl"), and former O-Town member Dan Miller. The Clutch has also written songs for some of the most successful producers in R&B including Timbaland, Danja, Bryan-Michael Cox, Bloodshy & Avant and Tricky Stewart.^[1][2]

The Clutch co-produced the track "Radar", recorded by pop singer Britney Spears for her 2007 studio album "Blackout". The song also appeared on Spears' 2008 album "Circus" and was released in 2009 as a single. In addition, Teairra Mari's song "Sponsor" penned by Ezekiel Lewis and Balewa Muhammad of The Clutch will be released as a single. Also Justin Bieber's single "One Less Lonely Girl" penned by Ezekiel Lewis and Balewa Muhammad.

Discography[link]

Singles discography[link]

^C Single Release Cancelled

^P Promo Only Or Limited Release

^BU Reached Only Billboard's Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Clutch on Myspace
• The Thomas Crown Chronicles - Archive of The Clutch News
• The Clutch @ BMI
• Concrete Loop - Article on The Clutch
• All Hip Hop - Interview with J. Que & Ezekiel Lewis from The Clutch
• Thomas Crown Chronicles - Interview with Candice Nelson from The Clutch
• Monica Mania - Interview with J. Que from The Clutch
• OK! Magazine - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• DUBCNN - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• MTV.com - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• SOHH - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• Access Atlanta - Jesse McCartney Speaks On The Clutch
• Mix Online - The Clutch referenced
• Le groupe SoulRnB.com consacré au collectif The Clutch