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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I read an article recently about photography (my hobby, hence my interest) in which a photographer was described as setting up a dozen lights for his studio shots. The client would be very impressed and would leave feeling that he was getting his money’s worth – with that many lights the photographer must really know what he’s doing. The trick was, that the photographer would set one or two lights to illuminate the subject while the picture was taken, and the other ten lights to flash a fraction of a moment later. The eye can’t tell the difference, so it looked like he used all the lights for the same shot, but in actuality most of the lights were there just for show. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, here’s the question – is this G’neivas Daas? On the one hand, he’s making himself look really good through this artifice – on the other, his pictures are the ultimate judge of his skill. If they came out in such a way that his client is happy, is it a problem that he made himself look good like this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A similar situation: A computer tech I know used to do tune-ups for computers. He was an honest fellow, and did what he said he would. But he would write on the invoice – as one of the line items – “checked for 35,000 viruses.” (This was back in the day when there were only 35,000 viruses.) That meant that he ran a virus check on the computer. So, yes, he did check for 35,000 viruses, but the way he wrote it made it sound a lot more impressive than it was.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Last for this post: A frum cosmetologist used to advertise her services in the town I used to live in. She had a typical Jewish last name, starting with “le”. So, after being in business for years, she started advertising her name like this: LeVovitz. (It wasn’t Levovitz – I don’t want to post her name in public. It was a different name and it was a lot less cringe-inducing than LeVovitz. :-) ) She was obviously going for the French look, making herself look exotic and so on. What do you think? G’neivas Daas?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>KT,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MYG<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>