For a time, vast numbers of flatboats, forerunners of today's barges, conveyed agricultural commodities, raw materials, whiskey, livestock, and people downriver.
"The important thing for me was the way in which the company conveyed confidence that commodities demand and pricing will remain solid going forward," said Damien Hackett, head of mining research at Canaccord Adams, a financial services firm in London.
Many such commodities are understood to carry and even convey the ineffable "spirit" of a brand.
When no futures prices are available (for example, in countries where commodity exchanges are missing), spot prices also convey relevant information about expected future prices due to inter-temporal arbitrage of grain storage.
These are contractual instruments that convey a right and/or obligation to buy or sell a commodity, like natural gas, at some item in the future for a specified price under specified terms and conditions.
On one level the paintings convey feelings of utopian euphoria: the well-designed world is a supremely efficient machine for living; commodities, information, energy and money flow smoothly from place to place; peace and harmony reign.
In the commodity realm of pop Ms. Gerrard's music has been useful providing atmosphere in film scores, yet it needs no images to convey lamentation or enthrallment.
Hand signals convey responses.
The loops convey gravity.
Gays convey sophistication, too.
How might they convey that?
