To get an idea about the severity of my smartphone dependence, I downloaded Checky.
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All Checky does is tell you how many times you've looked at your phone.
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Unlike Forest, which incentivizes keeping your phone out of sight, Checky seems to do the opposite.
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Checky said I only checked my phone once on a Wednesday, and three times on Thursday.
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First, I downloaded Checky app as this article suggested, and asked two fellow R29ers to join me.
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While you could do this with a pen and a pad of paper, Checky needs to be on and running in the background in order to work.
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Checky is like a bouncer with one of those little clicky things to monitor crowd size, but, unlike bouncers, it can't break up fights or throw sand on sidewalk vomit.
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Above the figures are two shields set upside down. The dexter charged with a trefoil between three molets (Ashfield); the sinister charged quarterly the first, destroyed, the second and third, a checky cross between sixteen roundels, and the fourth, a paly of six a fesse (Walsingham).
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The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Checky or and gules on a pile argent a lion's head erased sable. This can be translated as: a chequered shield with alternating golden and red squares, a white triangle pointing downwards from the top with a black lion's head on top.
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The emblem is party per fess: in the first part it's represented two embattled towers of gules, the second is checky of gules. It's the canting arms used in 1607 in the castle by the Bishops of Brixen and symbolize the German name of the municipality: towers (Thurn) over the fields (Feld). The emblem was granted in 1966. Ötzi the Iceman is attested to have spent his childhood here, some 5,300 years ago.
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Arms of Clifford: Checky or and azure, a fesse gulesDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.262 These are the arms borne by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (c. 1274 – 1314), as recorded in the Caerlaverock Roll of 1300 Following the acquisition of the whole of the feudal barony of Appleby by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (1274–1314), it descended thenceforth in the Clifford family, together with the feudal barony of Skipton and the barony by writ of de Clifford.
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1638 Mural monument in Weare Giffard Church to 3 generations of the Fortescue family. South wall of south aisle chapel ("Fortescue Chapel") lion rampant of the first three bezants Sir John Chichester (d.1569) of Raleigh. On the side of the prie dieu is an escutcheon showing the arms of Fortescue impaling Chichester: Checky or and gules , a chief vair Lower tier figures of John Fortescue and his wife Mary Speccot of Thornbury, Devon, about 10 miles SW of Weare Giffard.
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Modern drawing after the 18th century Roll of arms The standard arms of Rosenkrantz are party per bend gules and azure, a bend checky argent and sable. Above the helm and the wreath of roses, there is a peacock feather between two buffalo horns having four ditto feathers each. The horns are divided into silver and pattern, and pattern and red, respectively. The oldest known illustration of the standard arms is found in the Gelre Armorial of the 14th century.
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Arms of Clifford: Checky or and azure, a fesse gulesDebrett's Peerage & Baronetage, 1968, p.262 as borne by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (c. 1274–1314), feudal baron of Skipton, as recorded in the famous Caerlaverock Roll of 1300 Baron Clifford is a title in the Peerage of England created by writ of summons on 17 February 1628 for Henry Clifford (later 5th Earl of Cumberland). Henry, Lord Clifford inherited his father's title in 1641, whereupon he sat in the House of Lords as Earl of Cumberland until his death in 1643.
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The blazon of the arms is "Azure; a lymphad, sails furled, argent, on a shield or, pendent from the mast, a fess checky azure and argent".R M Urquhart, Scottish Civic Heraldry (Scottish Library Association, Hamilton, 2001) Another symbol associated with the county is the Prince of Wales's feathers badge, demonstrating the heir to the throne's connections as Baron Renfrew. It was used historically on badges of local army and militia regiments, as well as the cap badges of the former Renfrewshire Constabulary. The Paisley pattern is used as the logo of Renfrewshire Council, one of the three modern local authorities in the county.
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Squares, Checks, and Grids, Communicating With Pattern, RotoVision, 2008, Busch, Akiko (Editor) Design for Sports: The Cult of Performance, 1st ed., Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, The arms of "Bleichröder, banker to Bismarck," show chequy fimbriated (the chequers being divided by thin lines). The arms of the 85th Air Division (Defense) of the United States Air Force show "a checky grid" on part of the field, though this is to be distinguished from "chequy". The number of chequers is generally indeterminate, though the fess in the arms of Robert Stewart, Lord of Lorn, they are blazoned as being "of four tracts" (in four horizontal rows); and in arms of Toledo, fifteen chequers are specified.
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On incorporation in 1955, the borough was granted a coat of arms. the blazon was as follows:Geoffrey Briggs, Civic and Corporate Heraldry, London, 1972 Vert a pall wavy argent on a chief indented sable a balance between two acorns leaved and slipped Or, and for a Crest out of a mural crown Sable a demi-dragon gules gorged with a riband pendant therefrom an escutcheon Or charged with three chevrons of the second and supporting a torch erect of the first enflamed proper. Supporters: On either side a sea-dragon sable the tail proper gorged with a collar checky argent and azure. In 1974 the arms were transferred to the Rhondda Borough Council.
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In the Armorial de Barry, c 1445Partially reproduced in Clouston, J. Storer, 'The Armorial of Berry' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, Vol. LXXII, 6th series, Vol XII (1938) pages 84-111 the arms of Buchanan (Le sire de bouguenal) are Or (gold/yellow), chevron checky of Azure (Blue) and Argent (silver/white), and the three boars heads erased and erect of Gules (red). The following three events are believed to have resulted in a total transformation in the Chief's arms: 1421 - The Battle of Baugé in which Sir Alexander Buchanan (son of the Chief) killed the Duke of Clarence (second son of King Henry IV of England). 1425 – Execution by James I of Scotland, of his first-cousin, Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, and Murdoch's two older sons for treason.
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Furs and charges blazoned as proper can be placed on colour, metal, fur, or charges blazoned as proper. Simple divisions of the field are considered to be beside each other, not one on top of the other; so the rule of tincture does not apply. In practice, however, fields divided into multiple partitions, such as barry or checky, use (with extremely rare exceptions) an alternating pattern of metal and colour for adjacent units. The rule also does not apply to charges placed upon party-coloured (divided) or patterned fields; a field party or patterned of a colour and metal may have a charge of either colour, metal, or party or patterned, placed on it (and there is a small body of precedent that a field party of two colours or two metals may have a charge or charges of either colour, metal, or party or patterned on it; examples of this certainly exist).
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