Air Conditioning (album)

Air Conditioning was the November 1970 debut album by British rock group Curved Air. It reached number 8 in the UK albums chart in December, 1970.

On the picture disc (subsequently used as the album cover) the album title was shown as "Airconditioning", while the subsequent green label issue had it as "Air Conditioning".

Background and recording

Though Sonja Kristina is credited as the sole lyricist of "It Happened Today", in a series of interviews conducted from late 1998 through March 1999, Francis Monkman claimed to have conceived the song's title and basic lyrical concept. Kristina concurred that Monkman came up with the title but asserts that the lyric "isn't really about anything specific." In contrast, though "Propositions" is credited solely to Monkman, he denies having written the lyrics and suggests that they were written by Kristina. He explained the inspiration for the song's music: "I was a great fan of Terry Riley (having played in the 1st London performance of "In C" in 1968) and was very impressed by "A Rainbow in Curved Air". Then I had a kind of "musical vision" of a high-energy rock sound going into a Terry-like tape-loop improvisation. That became "Propositions"..."

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Offshore

Offshore may refer to:

Finance and law

Offshoring, active movement of companies to offshore centers

Offshore financial centre, jurisdictions which transact financial business with non-residents

Offshore investment, relates to the wider financial services industry in offshore centers

Offshore bank, relates to the banking industry in offshore centers

Offshore company

Offshore Stock Broker, relates to stock brokers in offshore centers

Offshore fund, collective investment in offshore centers

Offshore trust, trust arranged in offshore jurisdiction

Technology

Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well

Offshore (hydrocarbons)

Offshore construction, construction out at sea

Offshore powerboat racing, powerboat racing

Offshore hosting, server

Offshore wind power, wind power in a body of water

Arts

Offshore (novel), a 1979 British novel by Penelope Fitzgerald

"Offshore" (song), a 1996 song by British electronic dance music act Chicane

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Offshore (novel)

Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats on the Thames in Battersea. The novel explores the liminality of people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but are somewhere in between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" ("whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues") comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.

List of Characters and Their Boats (in order)

Lord Jim

Richard Blake, husband, aged 39

Laura Blake, wife, also known as Lollie

Maurice

Maurice

Harry, Maurice's acquaintance, who uses the boat for his own purposes but does not live on board

Grace

Nenna James, mother

Martha James, Nenna's teenage daughter.

Tilda (Matilda) James, Nenna's younger daughter, who is six years old

Edward James, estranged father and husband, who visits the boat only once

Stripey (the cat)

Dreadnought

Willis, painter, widower, 65 years old

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Offshore (hydrocarbons)

"Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field. There are various types of platform used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields, and subsea facilities.

Offshore exploration is performed with floating drilling units.