The accessories are just as creative, with tables strewn with vintage sunglasses, leopard print parasols, cut mirror butterfly brooches, handmade graphic purses, gold lobster claw pendants and cross stitch badges.
One of the few Creoles able to do so, he flaunts the cross and jeweled badge of the Spanish Order of Santiago.
Knights and Dames Grand Cross wear the badge on a riband or sash, passing from the right shoulder to the left hip.
"It was a sore point often raised about both state and federal police, that they had the crown of the British Monarchy with its cross on their badges," he wrote in an email.
You know, Saint George: patron saint of Catalonia, the knight whose cross adorns Barcelona's badge.
If riding the D train gains one fan a merit badge, the Cross Bronx Expressway or Grand Central Parkway in August should gain sainthood for another.
While the classic form is associated with youthful scouts, in recent years the merit badge has crossed over into the adult world and is lately getting a digital twist.
Nanocomposites containing thermally reduced graphene (TRG) have been prepared with poly trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT) plasticized with (bisphenol-A diglycidyl ether) (BADGE), a cross-linkable additive.
Therefore, to reduce the chance of false positives, we used an extrinsic leave-one-out cross-validation implemented in BADGE to select those probe sets that showed robust changes of expression between groups (Singh et al, 2002).
Paul Haynes highlighted a similar set-up at Bayer Leverkusen whose badge – "the Bayer cross" – is the emblem of pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer and has adorned the club's shirt since 1904 but, crucially, not at the expense of other sponsors names.
As the years slipped by, that majestic mark of 2003 would sometimes become as much a cross to bear as a badge of pride.
