When Heidi Montag isn't working the paid-appearance circuit with bad boy beau Spencer Pratt, she keeps busy with a newly launched retail line, Heidiwood, and a fledgling singing career.

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Meanwhile, at Queens Market in East London, Muhammad Shahid Nazir was busy doing what he did best: attracting customers to his fish stall by singing his catchy tune One Pound Fish.

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Otherwise I might laugh at the idea that a compressed recording of a singing bowl could even begin to compare to the sonic vibrations that are meant to guide my focus away from the busy-ness of everyday approximations of reality and back toward the precise experience of the present.

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