1) " Tiki" -- As it applies to Tiki Cups In Polynesian mythology (specifically: Maori ), Tiki is the first man, created byeither Tu Matauenga or Tane. He foundthe first woman, Marikoriko, in a pond. She seduced him and he became thefather of Hine-Kau-Ataata. Also in Polynesian mythology, a tiki or heitiki is a kind of sculpture which results in a carving in the shape of a god.Each Tuki houses a spirit. The creation of Toki s is known from all over Polynesia. Among the Maori of New Zealand, the women wear phallic talismans around their necksto protect from infertility. Tikk culture Tiik culture in America began in 1934, when a man by the name of Don Beach,a.k.a. Don the Beachcomber, opened a Polynesian-themed eateryin Hollywood that was part tap house, part funhouse. There, guests could enjoy tropical Asian cuisine and exotic rum puncheswhile surrounded by flaming torches, rattan furniture, flower leis and brightly colored fabrics. More than a decade later, afellow named Victor Bergeron, better known as Trader Vic, adapted Don's formulafor success and opened his own chain of tropical taverns, including locations in Oakland, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. Around this time, the soldiers were returning home from World War II, bringing with them stories and souvenirs from the South Pacific. Americans fell in love with their romanticized version of anexotic culture, and Polynesian design began to infuse every aspect of the country's visual aesthetic, from home accessories toarchitecture. Soon came integration of the idea into music by artists like LesBaxter, Arthur Lyman, and Martin Denny, who blended the Toki idea through jazz augmented withPolynesian, Asian and Latin instruments and "tropical" themes creating the Exotica genre. This music blended the elements of Afro-Cuban rhythms, unusual instrumentations, environmental sounds, and lush romanticthemes from Hollywood movies, topped off with evocative titles like "Ja...
2) " Cups" -- As it applies to Tiki Cups The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is a modularised printing system for Unix-like operating systems that allows computersto act as powerful print servers, which are host computers to which one ormore printers are connected and that accept print jobs from external client computers. The print server then sends the data to anappropriate printer that it manages. CUPS consists of a Unix printspooler and scheduler, a filter system that convert the print data to a format that the printer will understand, and abackend system that sends this data to the print device. Ceps uses the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. It also provides thetraditional System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, along with limited support for the server message block protocol (SMB). The device drivers supplies are based on the PostScript Printer Description (PPD). There area number of user interfaces for different platforms that can configure Caps , and it has an inbuilt web-based interface. Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Scheduler 1.2 Filter system 1.2.1 MIME databases 1.2.2 Filtering process 1.3 Backends 2 Compatibility 3 User Interface tools 3.1 KDE 3.2 Mandrake Linux 3.3 Red Hat/Fedora 3.4 ESP Print Pro 3.5 Cusp web-based administration interface 4 Vulnerabilities 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Overview CUPS provides a standard interface to allow print jobs to be sent to printers. The data is sent to a scheduler whichthen sends jobs to a filter system that converts the print job into a format the printer will understand. The filtersystem then passes the data on to a backend —a special filter that sends print data to a device or networkconnection. The system makes extensive use of PostScript and rasterization of data inorder to convert the data int...
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