Fumiyuki Beppu (; born 10 April 1983 ) is a Japanese professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team.

On 28 September 2007, the professional cycling team announced that they had signed Beppu for a one year contract.

From 2005 to 2006, all municipalities but Beppu, Tsukumi, Himeshima, Hiji, and all towns in Kusu District, merged, and the total municipalities went down from 58 on December 31, 2004, to 18 after the creation of the city of Kunisaki by merging with 4 towns from Higashikunisaki District on March 31, 2006.

Beppu offers a wide range of cultural experiences, from an annual international music festival, to the unabashed Hihokan Sex Museum, which nevertheless must follow the law and suspend a glass plate above ancient art with frosted areas censoring the overlarge genital depictions.

The elaborate public aquarium " Umi-tamago " on the shoreline outside Beppu features basketballing sea otters, performing archer fish, and puzzle-solving octopuses, along with more naturalistic displays of freshwater and marine fish from around the world.

Beppu is a busy passenger port with regular ferry links through the inland sea to Osaka and several other destinations.

The city of Beppu has sister city relationships with the following locations.

Beppu was crowded with US soldiers, and musicians were in high demand to provide entertainment.

In the early 1990s the concept of creating an international university in the City of Beppu was first raised by the Governor of Ōita Prefecture, Mr Morihiko Hiramatsu with the then Chancellor of the Ritsumeikan Trust in Kyoto, Mr Kawamoto.

In Japan, links have been established with Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Aichi Shukutoku University, Tokyo Seitoku University, Kochi University, Sacred Heart University, and Beppu University.

The college maintains international exchange ties with three institutions: Russia's Novosibirsk Conservatory, Australia's University of Tasmania, and Japan's Beppu University.

On 23 November 2009, it was announced Beppu had signed to ride with for the 2010 season.

Later it became clear that Beppu still had one year left on his contract with Skil-Shimano, so he had to buy himself out of the contract.

James Dickey opened his 1965 poem " The Firebombing ," about a nighttime air raid on the Japanese town of Beppu, with this epigraph from Eich's work:

* international masters of material flow management, together with Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in ( Beppu, Japan ).

Its original name was until 1961 when it was officially changed to Beppu Tower.

The most famous of these are in Beppu, on the east shore, and around Mt.

Besides the volcanic area of the south, there are significant mud hot springs in the northern part of the island, around Beppu.

Native DJs such as Ryota Nozaki ( Jazztronik ), the two brothers Okino Shuya and Okino Yoshihiro of Kyoto Jazz Massive, Toshio Matsuura ( former member of the United Future Organization ) and DJ Shundai Matsuo creator of the popular monthly DJ event, Creole in Beppu, Japan as well as nu-jazz artists, Sleepwalker, GrooveLine, and Soil & " Pimp " Sessions have brought great change to the traditional notions of jazz in Japan.

As governor Matsukata instituted a number of reforms including road building, starting the port of Beppu, and building a successful orphanage.

The prefecture's major water sources are Yamakuni River, Yakkan River, Ōita River, Ōno and Banjō River, and Beppu Bay and the Bungo Channel.

Ōita has a 759 kilometer coastline that has shoals in the north, Beppu Bay in the center, and a jagged or sawtooth " rias coastline " in the south.

This is contributed to the fact that Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University ( APU ) in Beppu accepts many foreign students.

During the Edo period ( 1600 – 1868 ) Beppu thrived as a tourist town and bamboo baskets and goods were used in the daily lives of the local people for everything from cooking to washing in order to meet the demands of the thriving tourist population.

The bamboo items soon became a souvenir that tourists purchased to take home and this solidified making Beppu a center for Bamboo crafts production.

In 1903 a training center for bamboo workers was established and present-day visitors to Beppu can enjoy learning about the history of bamboo, and hands-on classes at the Beppu City Traditional Bamboo Crafts Center.

Other works of his can be found throughout the prefecture including B-con Plaza in Beppu, Bungo-No-Kuni Information Library, the Audio-Visual Center in Oita City, and Yufu Train Station.

The Martha Argerich music festival " Argerich's Meeting Point in Beppu " is an annual event held in Beppu City.

This international event welcomes music lovers from all over the world to Beppu.

Ōita Prefecture is famous for its hot springs, particularly those in and around the city of Beppu, known as the ' hells ', or jigoku.

A tengu mikoshi ( portable shrine ) in the city of Beppu, Ōita | Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, on Kyūshū.

The accounts of his subordinates claim either that he uprighted himself and committed seppuku after his injury, or that he requested that the comrade Beppu Shinsuke assist his suicide.

is a city located in Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan, at the west end of Beppu Bay.

Beppu is a tourist town sandwiched between the sea and the mountains.

This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.

Charlton turned professional in 1920 and first entered the Football League in 1921.

Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league.

His success on the football field led to several football scholarship offers, which he turned down to pursue a career in professional baseball.

He turned professional in May 1952, at the age of 17 ( the youngest possible age legally ) and made his debut at 18.

Offered a professional contract as a ballplayer, he turned it down, stating that he preferred to play for the love of the game.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

The team later turned professional through 1875, becoming a charter member of the National League in 1876, but were expelled from the N. L.

With so much personal chaos and professional uncertainty, the members turned to faith to try to steady their lives.

The move was made under unfortunate circumstances – as it turned out that Davis had leukemia, and died without ever playing a down in professional football.

In 1885 the club turned professional, and in 1886 they reached the FA Cup final for the first time, losing 2 – 0 to Blackburn Rovers in a replay.

He gave up his insurance job to enroll in Preston repertory theatre and turned professional as an actor at the comparatively late age of 27.

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At the age of seven, he began caddying at The Homestead in Hot Springs ; he worked as an assistant pro at The Homestead at 19, and turned professional in 1934.

Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).

The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they turned professional.

Usually known as " Savoy Lindy Hoppers " occasionally they turned professional, such as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and performed in Broadway and Hollywood productions.

Sampras turned professional in 1988, at the age of 16, and finished the year ranked world number 97 after starting the year at world number 893.

When his involvement with hypnosis waned as a result of failure to establish professional acceptance, he turned to the study of development spurred on by the birth of his two daughters, Marguerite and Armande ( born in 1885 and 1887, respectively ), calling Armande a subjectivist and Marguerite an objectivist, and developing the concepts of introspection and externospection in an anticipation of Carl Jung's psychological types. Ellenberger, p. 702-3 In the 21 year period following his shift in career interests, Binet " published more than 200 books, articles, and reviews in what now would be called experimental, developmental, educational, social, and differential psychology " ( Siegler, 1992 ).

The team turned professional in 1894 and joined the Southern League which was founded in the same year.

Nagurski turned professional to play for the Chicago Bears from 1930 to 1937.

Although Cagney turned out to be Warner's greatest prize, he was also the studio executive's biggest professional challenge.

Escobar turned professional on September 1, 1930, in a fight card organized at the Victory Garden gym in San Juan.

Since Escobar turned professional while he was still legally a minor, his father had to sign the unbinding agreement.

From 1948-1950, the former professional football player George Doherty coached at Stamps High School and turned a winless team into two district championships and a second-place finish statewide.