48-470: (Redirected from CoC ) COC may refer to: Terms [ edit ] Certificate of Conformity, see type approval Chain of command , following orders based on others' authority within the group. Chain of custody , the chronological record of a sample or evidence Circle of confusion , the optical term for a blurred spot which is the image of an out-of-focus point source Cleveland open-cup method ,
96-816: A CoC is defined by the European regulation (Amendment IX, Regulation 92/53). Equipment which do not comply with the EU specification (e.g. vehicle manufactured for the U.S. or Japanese market) and older equipment that have not been given the type approval of the EC yet, cannot have an existing CoC. Similarly, it is not possible to issue a CoC for converted vehicles; in this case another technical document might help register your car. Only car and motorcycles are eligible. Certificates of conformity have been defined in EU's Single Internal Market and Type Approval Directive (EC-92). EU's single internal market became official on 1 January 1993. Part of
144-600: A form of business network Chinese Olympic Committee , represents People's Republic of China in handling international affairs related to the Olympic Movement Christian Outreach Centre, former name of International Network of Churches (INC), an Australian network of Pentecostal churches Christian Outreach College (disambiguation) , several schools linked to the INC Clinical Officers Council ,
192-587: A framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers , and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles) rules the approval schemes of the new motor vehicles and their trailers in the European Union : Each jurisdiction that regulates communications requires all types of equipment, and especially radio communications equipment, that are not specifically exempted (by reason of low power output, for instance) to be tested for conformance to local regulations before it
240-672: A freemium mobile MMO strategy video game by Supercell Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA College of the Canyons , a two-year community college located in Santa Clarita, California Combined oral contraceptive pill , a medical method of birth control Commandant of cadets, the head faculty position responsible for cadet training within any U.S. Federal military academy: List of Commandants of Cadets of
288-655: A government agency that regulates the training, registration and licensing of Clinical officers in Kenya COC Nederland , the Dutch abbreviation for the earliest homophile organisation, founded in 1946 Colombian Olympic Committee , the non-profit organization representing Colombia athletes in the International Olympic Committee The Company of Chivalry , an historical reenactment group Consortium of Consortia ,
336-656: A method used in chemistry for determining a substance's flashpoint Code of conduct , a set of rules and regulations for organizations and events Cost of capital , an investment principal Organizations [ edit ] Canadian Olympic Committee , a private organization representing Canadian athletes in the International Olympic Committee and the Pan American Games Canadian Opera Company , Toronto-based opera company Chamber of commerce ,
384-480: A short story by H.P. Lovecraft Cagayan de Oro College , a college in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines Call of Cthulhu , a tabletop role-playing game Captains of Crush Grippers , a brand of torsion-spring grippers Chip on chip, an extension of surface-mount technology Churches of Christ , a restorationist Christian denomination Clash of Civilizations , a theory of political science Clash of Clans ,
432-581: Is COC Cup of China , a figure skater competition Cyclic olefin copolymer , the chemical name for a plastic engineering resin Continuum of Care , a program designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness See also [ edit ] Tritenii de Jos (formerly called Coc ), a commune in Cluj County, Romania Chain of command (disambiguation) Chronicles of Chaos (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
480-524: Is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft . Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. The first seed of the story's first chapter The Horror in Clay came from one of Lovecraft's own dreams he had in 1919, which he described briefly in two different letters sent to his friend Rheinhart Kleiner on May 21 and December 14, 1920. In
528-527: Is approved for use in that jurisdiction. Such conformance might include power and noise characteristics, use of permitted frequencies only, frequency stability, and various other electrical parameters. A certificate of conformance is defined in American commerce Archived 18 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine as a document certified by a competent authority that the supplied good or service meets
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#1732773149704576-428: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Type approval Type approval or certificate of conformity is granted to a product that meets a minimum set of regulatory, technical and safety requirements. Generally, type approval is required before a product is allowed to be sold in a particular country, so the requirements for a given product will vary around
624-570: Is equal to a declaration of the conformity with the type approval of EC. It is produced to ensure the free movement of equipment within the European Union, specifically for equipment that is subject to homologation or registration. A CoC is a producer's declaration that equipment, e.g. a car or motorcycles comply with the given approved type. This document contains information about the equipment and its producer's identification, type approval number, other technical specifications. The content of
672-499: Is recognised as equivalent to an approval granted under comparable EU legislation. In March 1992, the EU Council formally adopted the few remaining pieces of component-related legislation that are necessary to make the whole-vehicle type approval a reality for passenger cars. In June 1992, EU member state officials approved the adoption of EU legislation creating a single system for the certification of passenger cars, in turn defining
720-555: Is the confirmation that production samples of a design will meet specified performance standards. Traditionally, there are two systems of type approval in Europe. The first one is based on the EC directives and regulates the approval of whole vehicles, vehicle systems, and separate components. The second one is part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe regulations (UNECE) and also regulates
768-444: The "EC-92" effort was to remove the technical barriers preventing the free movement of products within the EU market. The greatest impact of this effort has been in the area of standards in the automotive sector. The EU Commission is seeking to harmonise the automotive, technical and environmental standards between all the member states. EU legislation defines the standards in the areas of noise, particle emissions and safety. In addition,
816-410: The EU's Directive on Type Approval (EU Council Directive 92/53) eliminates the need for national type approval requirements by establishing one set of rules for automobiles and their components throughout the EU. This directive aims at the clarification of the type approval procedure for motor vehicles, separate technical units (i.e., trailers), and components. It simplifies the documentation, designates
864-711: The Insane Clown Posse Chemistry of Consciousness , an album by thrash metal band Toxic Holocaust Children of the Corn (group) , a hip hop group composed of Cam'ron, Big L, Bloodshed and Herb McGruff City of Caterpillar , an Emo/Screamo band Corrosion of Conformity , a heavy metal band from the American South Other [ edit ] Calculus of constructions , a formal language in which both computer programs and mathematical proofs can be expressed The Call of Cthulhu ,
912-766: The United States Air Force Academy List of Commandants of Cadets of the United States Military Academy Community of Christ , previously known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Convention over configuration , a software design paradigm which seeks to decrease the number of decisions that developers need to make Corcoran station , an Amtrak station in California, United States whose station code
960-628: The Worlds was an influence on "The Call of Cthulhu", citing the thematic similarities of ancient, powerful, but indifferent aliens associated with deities; physical similarities between Cthulhu and the Martians ; and the plot detail of a ship ramming an alien in a temporarily successful but ultimately futile gesture. The deceased narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his grand-uncle, Brown University linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, after his death in
1008-730: The approval of whole vehicles, vehicle systems, and separate components. Recent changes to the requirements have seen the General Safety Regulation (GSR) EC661/2009 amending Directive 2007/46/EC by substituting the equivalent UNECE regulations in place of the EC directives. In effect the directives are being replaced by UNECE regulations. This now makes compliance with the UNECE regulations for type approval submissions compulsory from 1 November 2012 and compulsory for all vehicles entering to service from 1 November 2014. The new Framework Directive ( Directive 2007/46/EC establishing
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#17327731497041056-553: The back of many electronic devices does not mean that the product has obtained type approval in the European Union . The CE mark is the manufacturer's declaration that the system/assembly meets the minimum safety requirements of all the directives (laws) applicable to it, and of itself, does not signify any third party involvement in the design or testing of a system/assembly. Many of the New Approach safety directives do not mandate third party involvement at all (e.g. LVD, EMD), and
1104-443: The contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon, and this was fashioned in my dreams. This can be compared to what the character of Henry Anthony Wilcox tells the main character's uncle while showing him his sculpted bas-relief for help in reading hieroglyphs on it which came through Wilcox's own fantastical dreams: It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre or
1152-585: The contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon. Lovecraft then used this for a brief synopsis of a new story outlined in his own Commonplace Book at first in August 1925, which developed organically out of the idea of what the bas-relief in the dream actually might have depicted. In a footnote for his writing down of his own dream, Lovecraft then finished with the suggestion "Add good development & describe nature of bas-relief" to himself for future reference. Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price claims
1200-447: The cultists and arresting 47 others, Legrasse learns that they worship the "Great Old Ones" and await the return of a monstrous being called Cthulhu. The prisoners identify the statuette as "great Cthulhu." One of the academics present at the meeting, Princeton professor William Channing Webb, describes a group of " Esquimaux " with similar beliefs and fetishes. Thurston discovers a 1925 article from an Australian newspaper which reports
1248-650: The discovery of a derelict ship, the Alert , of which second mate Gustaf Johansen is the sole survivor. Johansen reports that the Emma was attacked by a heavily armed yacht named the Alert . The crewmen of the Emma killed those aboard the Alert , but lost their own ship in the battle, commandeered the Alert , and discovered an uncharted island in the vicinity of co-ordinates of 47°9′S 126°43′W / 47.150°S 126.717°W / -47.150; -126.717 ( R'lyeh fictional location (Lovecraft) ) . With
1296-499: The dream, Lovecraft is visiting an antiquity museum in Providence, attempting to convince the aged curator there to buy an odd bas-relief Lovecraft himself had sculpted. The curator initially scoffs at him for trying to sell something that was recently made to a museum of antique objects. Lovecraft then remembers himself answering the curator: Why do you say that this thing is new? The dreams of men are older than brooding Egypt or
1344-431: The exception of Johansen and another man, the remaining crew died on the island. Johansen does not reveal the manner of their death. Upon traveling to Australia, Thurston views a statue retrieved from the Alert which is identical to the previous two. In Norway, he learns that Johansen died suddenly after an encounter with "two Lascar sailors". Johansen's widow provides Thurston with her late husband's manuscript, wherein
1392-622: The irregular sonnet " The Kraken ", published in 1830 by Alfred Tennyson , was a major inspiration, since both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from its slumber in an apocalyptic age. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz cited other literary inspirations: Guy de Maupassant 's " The Horla " (1887), which Lovecraft described in Supernatural Horror in Literature as concerning "an invisible being who...sways
1440-441: The manuscript, Thurston realizes he is now a target of Cthulhu's worshippers, and hopes in vain that it will be destroyed following his death. Lovecraft regarded the short story as "rather middling—not as bad as the worst, but full of cheap and cumbrous touches". Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story, and only accepted it after writer Donald Wandrei , a friend of Lovecraft's, falsely claimed that Lovecraft
1488-630: The minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on Earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind"; and Arthur Machen 's " The Novel of the Black Seal " (1895), which uses the same method of piecing together of disassociated knowledge (including a random newspaper clipping) to reveal the survival of a horrific ancient being. It is also assumed he got inspiration from William Scott-Elliot 's The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904), which Lovecraft read in 1926 shortly before he started to work on
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1536-605: The ones that do (e.g. PED, MDD, ATEX) only require notified body (NoBo) involvement above a certain degree of risk category. When the risk category mandates this involvement, the CE Marking on the system/assembly will be followed by the NoBo number, which right to use is granted by the NoBo after the required design review, testing or auditing, as spelled out in the Conformity Assessment options of each directive. On
1584-887: The organization now known as the International Coalition of Library Consortia Corporation of Chennai , the civic agency in the city of Chennai, India Corporation of Coimbatore , India The Council of Canadians , a citizen's organization founded to oppose the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Croatian Olympic Committee , the non-profit organization representing Croatian athletes in the International Olympic Committee United States Chamber of Commerce , an American business federation Music [ edit ] Carnival of Chaos , an album by GWAR Carnival of Carnage , an album by horrorcore hip-hop duo,
1632-522: The other hand, in China type approval is denoted by the CCC mark . Type approval is not a term confined to a particular industry . Type approval requirements exist for products as diverse as marine equipment, mobile phones, automotive industry , or medical equipment. Type approval simply means that the product is certified to meet certain requirements for its type , whatever that may be. Vehicle type approval
1680-484: The other member countries. To receive a type approval, products may either be brought to a testing facility or manufacturers may opt to maintain their own testing equipment. Nevertheless, US and EU automobiles still must be certified to this single set of rules by an authorised member state agency. A similar system was adopted for the type approval of two- and three-wheeled vehicles, which became effective on 1 January 1994. The Call of Cthulhu " The Call of Cthulhu "
1728-471: The phenomena described in Johansen's journal may be interpreted as "observable consequences of a localized bubble of spacetime curvature ", and proposed a suitable mathematical model. E. F. Bleiler has referred to "The Call of Cthulhu" as "a fragmented essay with narrative inclusions". The story, published more than a decade before World War II , is interesting for its use of the word " holocaust " as
1776-405: The required specifications. A certificate of conformance is a lot/datecode specific certification that provides traceability of the goods back to the point of manufacture. A certificate of conformity may be required of vendors of goods to nuclear generating stations to get the vendor to legally commit to stating compliance with applicable laws and regulations. A CoC or EC Certificate of Conformity
1824-497: The safety, and other technical, requirements. Legislation established an EU type approval system to replace the national schemes of the twelve member states. In 1996, the EU type approval system became mandatory. Vehicles with an EU type approval can be marketed anywhere in the European Community. Therefore, a vehicle only needs to receive the type approval certification in one EU country in order to be accepted in all of
1872-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title COC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COC&oldid=1227647482 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1920-513: The story as "ambitious and complex...a dense and subtle narrative in which the horror gradually builds to cosmic proportions", adding "one of [Lovecraft's] bleakest fictional expressions of man's insignificant place in the universe". French novelist Michel Houellebecq , in his book H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life , described the story as the first of Lovecraft's "great texts". Canadian mathematician Benjamin K. Tippett noted that
1968-492: The story is likely the 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake . S.T. Joshi has also cited A. Merritt 's novella The Moon Pool (1918) which Lovecraft 'frequently rhapsodied about'. Joshi says that 'Merritt's mention of a "moon-door" that, when tilted, leads the characters into a lower region of wonder and horror seems similar to the huge door whose inadvertent opening by the sailors causes Cthulhu to emerge from R'lyeh'. Edward Guimont has argued that H. G. Wells ' The War of
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2016-535: The story. Price also notes that Lovecraft admired the work of Lord Dunsany , who wrote The Gods of Pegana (1905), which depicts a god constantly lulled to sleep to avoid the consequences of its reawakening. Another Dunsany work cited by Price is A Shop in Go-by Street (1919), which stated "the heaven of the gods who sleep", and "unhappy are they that hear some old god speak while he sleeps being still deep in slumber". The "slight earthquake" mentioned in
2064-482: The type approval number of a separate technical unit by a certificate of conformity, and defines the vehicles, individual technical units, and components. Certificates of conformity, as specified in Annex IX of EU Directive 92/53, will be required for an automobile to enter into service. For component approvals, an endorsement that is issued under the relevant regulations by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
2112-467: The uncharted island is described as being home to a "nightmare corpse-city" called R'lyeh. Johansen's crew struggled to comprehend the non-Euclidean geometry of the city and accidentally released Cthulhu, resulting in their deaths. Johansen and one crewmate fled aboard the Alert and were pursued by Cthulhu. Johansen rammed the yacht into the creature's head, only for its injury to regenerate. The Alert escaped, but Johansen's crewmate died. After finishing
2160-540: The winter of 1926–27. Among the notes is a small bas-relief sculpture of a scaly creature which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature." The sculptor, a Rhode Island art student named Henry Anthony Wilcox, based the work on delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths." Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in Wilcox's papers. Angell also discovers reports of mass hysteria around
2208-423: The world. More notes discuss a 1908 meeting of an archeological society in which New Orleans police official John Raymond Legrasse asks attendees to identify a statuette of unidentifiable greenish-black stone resembling Wilcox's sculpture. It is then revealed that the previous year, Legrasse and a party of policemen found several women and children being used in a ritual by an all-male cult . After killing five of
2256-482: The world. Processes and certifications known as type approval in English are often called homologation , or some cognate expression, in other European languages. Compliance with type approval requirements can be denoted by a third-party marking on the back of the product (e.g. ABS , TÜV , UL , CSA , KIWA ), or by a type-approval certificate obtained by a manufacturer and kept on file. The CE mark found on
2304-458: Was thinking of submitting it elsewhere. The published story was regarded by Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian ) as "a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature.... Mr. Lovecraft holds a unique position in the literary world; he has grasped, to all intents, the worlds outside our paltry ken". Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon regarded
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