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Here, next to a repair shop on Classon Avenue in Crown Heights, is the fenced-in lot where the band, Despers USA, has spent a month practicing feverishly for the annual Steel Band Panorama Competition, the premier contest for steel drummers in New York, to be held on Saturday.

With the home leg to come in Glasgow next week, Neil Lennon's side are well placed to reach the lucrative group stage of Europe's premier contest for the first time in four years.

"Windows Embedded is excited to bring SPARKs Will Fly, the premier contest for hobbyists, academics and general developer enthusiasts, to the developer community," said Ilya Bukshteyn, senior director of Windows Embedded Marketing at Microsoft Corp. "Windows Embedded is committed to fostering creativity and innovation in the embedded technology market.

The competition, called Panorama, is one of the premier contests for pan music, a variant of calypso played on converted oil drums.

In contrast, Lennon enjoys near untouchable status, with Celtic dominating domestically and preparing for a second successive season in the rarefied atmosphere of Europe's premier contest.

Edinburgh, who reached the semi-finals of Europe's premier contest last season, are without a point from four outings and are yet to register a try.

She notched a first win in Europe's premier filly contest for trainer John Gosden, just two years after stablemate The Fugue was a most unlucky loser.

It is England's version of Spain's Clásico — a contest for the Premier League title.

Though Liverpool have begun the year at the top of the table, for the layers the contest for the Premier League is a head-to-head between Manchester United and Chelsea.

With no lingering English presence in the Champions League to upstage the occasion and the contest for the Premier League title all but over, the FA Cup should hold more of the public's attention than usual, if it does not actually hold them in thrall.

In 2007, the Wall Street firm teamed up with Tishman Speyer to buy Archstone for more than $23 billion, having triumphed in a contest for one of the nation's premier apartment landlords.