Professional horse racing came with the British aristocracy to China in the middle 1800s and most notably centered around The Shanghai Race Club-the Mainland China racing club and racecourse centered in Shanghai.

Comparative water-quality assessment of the Hai He River basin in the People's Republic of China and three similar basins in the United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1647.

Professional dan rankings are normally awarded in Japan, China, South Korea or Taiwan, through one of the professional Go associations, most notably the Hanguk Kiwon ( Korea ) or Nihon Ki-in ( Japan ).

* Chinese Professional Baseball League ( Chinese Taipei: Republic of China )

Zhang acted as the CCP's top party official at the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1921 and was elected a member of the Central Bureau of the CCP in charge of organizing the work of Professional revolutionaries.

After quitting the Uni-President Lions, he started one game for the Quebec Capitales of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball and gave only 4 hits and no walk in eight shut-out innings before quitting the team to join Team Canada at the qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

They were the China Golf Association, the Korea Professional Golfers ' Association and the Professional Golf Tour of India as well as the organizers of the six major Ladies tours, the LPGA Tour, the Ladies European Tour, the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour, the Japan LPGA, the Korean LPGA, and the Ladies Asian Golf Tour.

Other regional tours include the Professional Golf Tour of India and the China Golf Tour.

And apart from that, Shazhou Professional Institute of Technology is the first college in China which is ever funded solely by a local county-level city.

Professional footballers in China receive relatively high salaries both when compared to other Chinese sports leagues and football leagues in other countries.

* Xiaoting Pan ( 1982 -), the first professional pool player from China to play full-time on the Women's Professional Billiard Association ( WPBA ) tour.

Professional golfers from these countries are quite often from poor backgrounds and start their careers as caddies, for example, Ángel Cabrera of Argentina, and Zhang Lian-wei who is the first significant tournament professional from the People's Republic of China.

* CPBL most progressive award – Chinese Professional Baseball League ( Taiwan ; Republic of China )

At the 2008 Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced Azure Services Platform, a cloud-based operating system which Microsoft is developing.

The Fulton is an Equity House, operating under agreement with the Actor's Equity Association and the Union for Professional Actors and Stage Managers ( which essentially means that its actors and production team are paid per collective bargaining agreements, as opposed to non-equity actors who are not paid per collective bargaining agreements or volunteers ) and employs members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the United Scenic Artists.

The ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs the Windows 8 Professional operating system.

Professional backpackers ( operating in the wilderness ) have however now turned away from the regular Zippo lighter in favor of torch butane lighter which have windproof technology, heavy-duty matches, and ferrocerium rods.

The Women's Professional Football League ( WPFL ) was the original and longest operating women's professional American football league in the United States.

Ubisoft had, for a time, used the controversial StarForce copy protection technology that installs drivers on a system and is known to cause some hardware problems and compatibility issues with certain operating systems, starting with the game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, which was not compatible with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for quite some time, until a patch was released by the makers of StarForce.

According to Trend Micro HouseCall is compatible with all browsers and the following operating systems: Windows XP ( 32-bit ) Home or Professional ; Windows Vista ( 32-bit, 64-bit ) Ultimate, Business, Home Premium, or Home Basic ; and Windows 7, RC ( 32-bit, 64-bit ).

Since leaving NASA, Gordon has served as Executive Vice President of the New Orleans Saints Professional Football Club in the National Football League ( 1972 – 76 ); was General Manager of Energy Developers, Limited ( EDL ), a Texas Partnership involved in a joint venture with Rocket Research Corporation for the development of a liquid chemical explosive for use in the oil and gas industry ( 1977 ); President of Resolution Engineering and Development Company ( REDCO ) which provided design and operational requirements for wild oil well control and fire fighting equipment onboard large semi-submersible utility vessels ( 1978 ); following REDCO merger with Amarco Resources, Gordon assumed the additional duties of Vice President of Marketing, Westdale, an oil well servicing subsidiary of AMARCO operating in North Central Texas and Oklahoma, and also served as Vice President for Operations, Texas Division ( 1980 ); served as Director, Scott Science and Technology, Inc., Los Angeles Division ( 1981 – 1983 ).

* Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Professional, each with Service Pack 3 and Q326886 Hotfix operating on the x86 platform were certified as CAPP / EAL 4 Augmented ALC_FLR. 3 in October 2002.

's Messenger and Music Engine programs on the Microsoft Windows operating system 98, ME, 2000 Professional, XP ( Home and Professional ).

* Professional software: operating systems and programming languages, vertical and horizontal applications.

Toward the end of the 2010 season, in late August, Rich Ehrenreich's operating company for the team, Schaumburg Professional Baseball, L. L. C., was stripped of its business registration for nonpayment of sales and withholding taxes.

Computers at CIMS run Windows XP Professional, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.

The default PRO-3xx operating system was DEC's Professional Operating System or P / OS, which was a modified version of RSX-11M with a menu-driven core user interface.

An advocate of the VMS operating system, he wrote the first version of the VMS user guide, Introduction to VAX / VMS through Professional Press in May 1985 ( ISBN 096147291X ).

The increase in student numbers compelled the operating company of the Colleges to establish a Professional Services division.

As of July 13, 2011, AMOS Professional has been runnable under UAE using the free AROS-68k AmigaOS replacement ROM created by Jason McMullan and Toni Wilen.

In the 2011 International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, which is established on the basis of the number of alumni holding a post of Chief executive officer ( CEO ) or equivalent in one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, Chalmers University of Technology ranked 38th in the world, ranking 1st in Sweden and 15th in Europe.

Professional Painters, 2011.

In November 2010, Potter County commissioners awarded the bid for the 2011 use of the stadium to Scott Berry, owner of Southern Independent Baseball and franchisee with the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

Professional basketball players include three-time NBA champion Danny Ainge ' 81, 1952 NBA Rookie of the Year and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins ' 51, three-time Olympic medalist and Hall of Famer Krešimir Ćosić ' 73, and consensus 2011 national college player of the year Jimmer Fredette ' 11, currently with the Sacramento Kings.

" Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude ", 2011, ISBN 978-1-119-99281-3

In the 2011 season the Vaqueros joined the Pecos League of Professional Baseball Clubs against White Sands Pupfish, Roswell Invaders, Ruidoso Osos, Alpine Cowboys and Carlsbad Bats.

The Recon3D series were released in August 2011 and include PCI Express x1 cards such as Recon3D PCIe, Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional and Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion.

On February 17, 2011, Sony announced its 25 " OLED Professional Reference Monitor aimed at the Cinema and high end Drama Post Production market.

Site of the 2008 Ryder Cup ; 2004 and 2011 Senior PGA Championships ; 2002 PGA Professional National Championship ; and 1996, 2000 and 2014 PGA Championships.

The LPGA Championship, since 2011 known for sponsorship reasons as the Wegmans LPGA Championship, is the second-longest running tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association surpassed only by the U. S. Women's Open.

In 2011, days after the conclusion of the 2011 Olympia Weekend, Chairman of the IFBB Professional League Jim Manion amended the qualifying rules as follows:

* Dr. Amy Hadley, an Associate Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, was selected as the New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association ’ s 2011 recipient of its Distinguished Professional Service Award.

In 2011, the strip was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Over the years, Orlando Pirates – also known as ‘ The Happy People ’ – have accumulated a record of success having won the National Professional Soccer League title in 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1976, the National Soccer League title in 1994, and the Premier Soccer League title three times, in 2001, 2003 and 2011.

On November 30, 2011, Can-Am League commissioner Miles Wolff, who is also the commissioner of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, announced that the two leagues would play an interlocking schedule for the 2012 season.

As an indication of editions and prices, Delphi XE2 was sold directly by Embarcadero in 2011 in editions called Starter ( US $ 199 ), Professional ($ 899 ), Enterprise ($ 1, 999 ), Ultimate ($ 2, 999 ), and Architect ($ 3, 499 ).

* CCC-Polsat-Polkowice-Cyclism Team UCI Professional Continental team in 2011

He was expelled from the Institution of Civil Engineers on 4 July 2011, when the Institution's Professional Conduct Panel ruled that due to his breaching of " Rule 1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, which require all members to uphold the dignity, standing and reputation of the Institution " by " committing offences of False Accounting in connection with his responsibilities as a Member of Parliament " he should be expelled from the Institution.

* Professional golfer Darren Clarke, winner of the 2011 The Open Championship, lives in Portrush.

The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi award for his column.

Scheer received the 2010 Distinguished Work in New Media Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and in 2011 Ithaca College named Scheer the winner of the Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.