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Shaking Ray Levis

The Shaking Ray Levis is an ongoing collaboration of musicians with a common interest in free improvisation. The project was conceived and led by the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based team of Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner. They use storytelling, synthesizers, samplers and percussion to achieve their distinctive sound. They are the first American group to have recorded for Incus Records, the record label of British free improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey. Additionally, they have performed and recorded with Borbetomagus, John Zorn, David Greenberger, Killick Erik Hinds, Fred Frith, Min Tanaka, Amy Denio, and Derek Bailey, as well as with many other critically acclaimed artists.

Dennis Palmer died in Chattanooga on February 15, 2013.

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even though this site is an encyclopidia i still think it needs pics i realy want to know what some o these people that make my fav games look like

 * As long as the pictures used do not cause us copyright problems then that's fine. -- sannse (talk) 20:52, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

Motion work
What motion-capture work in Advent Children did Aoki play?

Singing work
I know she sang 2 tracks (mistakingly posted as 4 by the way on the main article) for the Final Fantasy X-2 Vocal Collections, but I thought it might be worth expanding on the two tracks on the Final Fantasy X feel/Go Dream single (feel (solo) and Endless Love, Endless Road (a duet with Tidus' voice actor Masakazu Morita)), and 2 more tracks on the Final Fantasy X Vocal Collections (After Tears - solo, and All the Way - a group piece with Rikku and Lulu's voice actresses Marika Matsumoto and Rio Natsuki). Oh and there was a remix of feel on the FFX Vocal Collections too, but I think that uses Aoki's original lyric recording from feel/Go Dream. It just seems that her Final Fantasy X-2 Vocal Collections got all the attention, leaving the other albums as somewhat worthless. TonyKM (talk) 00:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

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David Kawānanakoa

David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa (February 19, 1868 – June 2, 1908) was a prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom and founder of the House of Kawānanakoa. Born into Hawaiian nobility, Kawānanakoa grew up the royal court of his uncle King Kalākaua and aunt Queen Kapiʻolani who adopted him and his brothers after the death of their parents. On multiple occasions, he and his brothers were considered as candidates for the line of succession to the Hawaiian throne after their cousin Princess Kaʻiulani but were never constitutionally proclaimed. He was sent to be educated abroad in the United States and the United Kingdom where he pioneered the sport of surfing. After his education abroad, he served as a political advisor to Kalākaua's successor, Queen Liliʻuokalani until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. After Hawaii's annexation to the United States, he co-founded the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Birth and family
Kawānanakoa was born February 19, 1868, at Kaʻalaʻa at the mouth of the Pauoa Valley, in Honolulu, on the old homestead of his aunt Queen Kapiʻolani. Kawānanakoa was the first child of his father David Kahalepouli Piʻikoi from Kauaʻi island, and his mother Victoria Kinoiki Kekaulike, a noble from the district of Hilo who was later the royal governor of the island of Hawaiʻi. His younger brothers were Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui (1869–1887) and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (1871–1922).

Both his parents were linked to the reigning House of Kalākaua. Kawānanakoa's mother was the youngest sister of Queen Kapiʻolani, consort to King Kalākaua, who ruled from 1874 to 1891. Kawānanakoa's father was also King Kalākaua's paternal first cousin.

His family was of the aliʻi class of the Hawaiian nobility and traced their descents to the ruling lines of each of the Hawaiian Islands prior to conquest. His mother's paternal line goes back to the ruling families of the island of Hawaiʻi while her maternal grandfather was King Kaumualiʻi, the last ruler of an independent Kauaʻi before its cession to King Kamehameha I who united the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1810. Kaumualiʻi was also descended from the ruling families of Maui and Oʻahu. Kawānanakoa's father's paternal line was descended from a junior line of Kauaʻi while his father’s mother maternal line also originated from the ruling line of Hawaiʻi Island.

His name Kawānanakoa translates as "fearless prophecy" in Hawaiian. Born with the surname Piʻikoi, Kawānanakoa and Kalanianaʻole (more commonly referred to as Kūhiō) later adopted their given Hawaiian names as their surname. Sources state the brothers either changed their names in 1883 or 1891.

Royal succession
At a young age, Kawānanakoa and Kūhiō were hānai (informally adopted) by the childless Kapiʻolani and Kalākaua while the second brother Keliʻiahonui was hānai by their other maternal aunt Poʻomaikelani.

After their father's death in 1878, his mother Kekaulike brought Kawānanakoa and his brothers to live in Honolulu. The family split their times living with the king and queen on the premise of the old ʻIolani Palace or at Kapiʻolani's private residence Pualeilani in Waikīkī where the Hyatt Regency Waikiki now stands. After the completion of the new palace in 1882, they occupied a in large second floor bedroom, which later became known as the "Imprisonment Room" because it was where Kalākaua's successor Queen Liliʻuokalani was imprisoned in 1895.

On February 10, 1883, Kawānanakoa was granted by letters patent the title of Prince and style of His Royal Highness by King Kalākaua along with his mother, brothers and aunt. On February 14, Kawānanakoa served as bearer of the crown and Kūhiō as either the bearer of the palaoa or the consort crown during Kalākaua's and Kapiʻolani's coronation ceremony at ʻIolani Palace. After the death of Kekaulike in 1884, Kalākaua and Kapiʻolani assumed legal guardianship over all three boys.

In Kalākaua's will drafted in 1888, Kawānanakoa and his brother Kūhiō (their other brother Keliʻiahonui was deceased by this point) were included in a proposed line of succession after Liliʻuokalani, the king's niece Princess Kaʻiulani, Queen Kapiʻolani, and Princess Poʻomaikelani. The king also furthered outlined that he wished in the case that the throne passed to Kawānanakoa or his brother that they "assume the name and title of Kalakaua, and to be numbered in order from" him.

On Article 22 of proposed 1893 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Queen Liliʻuokalani outlined the succession to include Kaʻiulani followed by Kawānanakoa and Kūhiō and their legitimate heirs.

Education
Kawānanakoa and his brothers were educated at St. Alban's College (now ʻIolani School) and Oahu College (now Punahou School). After completing their basic education in Hawaii, they also traveled abroad for further study. His uncle King Kalākaua championed future Hawaiian leaders attaining a broader education with his 1880 Hawaiian Youths Abroad program. The Hawaiian government sent Kawānanakoa and his brothers to attend Saint Matthew's School, a private Episcopal military school in San Mateo, California. Kawānanakoa was enrolled in the fall of 1884 and his younger brothers were enrolled in the spring of 1885. Keliʻiahonui fell ill at school and returned to Hawaii where he died. Kawānanakoa and Kūhiō returned to Hawaii shortly afterward.

Kawānanakoa would also attend the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester from 1890 to 1891.

While attending school in San Mateo, Kawānanakoa and his two brothers would travel south to the Pacific seashore at Santa Cruz. The brothers demonstrated the Hawaiian sport of board surfing to the locals, becoming the first California surfers in 1885. In September 1890, Kawānanakoa and Kūhiō became the first surfers in the British Isles and taught their English tutor John Wrightson to surf on the beaches of Bridlington in northern England.

Political career
On August 31, 1891, Queen Liliʻuokalani appointed Kawānanakoa as a member of her Privy Council of State, a constitutionally-created advisory body purposed to advise and consent to acts made by the monarch. Kawānanakoa was also created Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kalākaua.

Liliʻuokalani was overthrown on January 17, 1893, and the Provisional Government of Hawaii established under pro-annexation leader Sanford B. Dole was officially recognized. The queen temporarily relinquished her throne to the United States, rather than the Dole-led government, in hopes that the United States would restore Hawaii's sovereignty to the rightful holder. A pro-annexationist delegation headed by Lorrin A. Thurston was sent by the provisional government for Washington, D.C., on January 19, to lobby for immediate annexation by the United States. The queen wrote letters to President Benjamin Harrison and President-elect Grover Cleveland outlining her case. However, the provisional government refused the queen's request to send her own envoys on the same ship as their delegation. Liliʻuokalani appointed Kawānanakoa and her lawyer Paul Neumann to represent her case. Archibald Scott Cleghorn paid for the travel expenses of Edward C. Macfarlane, another of the queen's envoys, to protect the rights of his daughter Princess Kaʻiulani. Annexationist William Richards Castle, who was a commissioner on Thurston's delegation, described Kawānanakoa as "a very pleasant fellow," but, "of course, [is] purely ornamental."

The trio left Honolulu on the Australia on February 2, arrived in San Francisco on February 11, and reached Washington, DC, on February 17. Macfarlane and Kawānanakoa were dispatched to present the queen's letter to President-elect Cleveland. While in New York, Kawānanakoa also visited his cousin Princess Kaʻiulani, who was in the United States to protest the proposed annexation of Hawaii, with her guardian Theophilus Harris Davies. Dissent developed between Davies and Liliʻuokalani's representatives in the United States over Davies' influence over Kaʻiulani. Kawānanakoa along with Neumann, Macfarlane and John Mott-Smith, the Hawaiian Minister to the United States, voiced criticism at Davies' action in bringing Kaʻiulani to the United States without the consent of Cleghorn or the queen. Cleveland was inaugurated on March 4. The new president withdrew the treaty of annexation from the Senate on March 9 and appointed James Henderson Blount on March 11 as special commissioner to investigate the overthrow. Neumann, Macfarlane and Kawānanakoa returned on April 7.

After the formation of the Republic of Hawaii, Kawānanakoa became a supporter of the Royalist resistance and opposition to the overthrow of the monarchy. On January 6–9, 1895, supporters of the monarchy launched an unsuccessful counter-revolution led Robert William Wilcox to restore Liliʻuokalani to the throne. After the failed rebellion, the queen was imprisoned in the former bedrooms of the princes at ʻIolani Palace. Documents presented against the former queen at the subsequent trials included signed commissions for a restored monarchial government with Kawānanakoa and Kūhiō as governors of Maui and Kauai, respectively. A month after the rebellion, Kawānanakoa was arrested and jailed at Oahu Prison for misprision of treason on February 21. Kawānanakoa would be released due to lack of evidence. His brother Kūhiō played a more active role in the rebellion and was found guilty by a military tribunal and sentenced to one year imprisonment.

The Republic of Hawaii was annexed via the Newlands Resolution, a joint resolution of Congress, on July 7, 1898. The annexation ceremony was held on August 12, 1898, at the former ʻIolani Palace, now being used as the executive building of the government. President Dole handed over "the sovereignty and public property of the Hawaiian Islands" to United States minister Harold M. Sewall. The flag of Hawaii was lowered, and the flag of the United States was raised in its place. Liliʻuokalani with Kaʻiulani, Kawānanakoa and Kūhiō, their family members and retainers boycotted the event and shuttered themselves away at Washington Place, the private residence of Liliʻuokalani, in mourning. Many Native Hawaiians and royalists followed suit and refused to attend the ceremony.

Territory of Hawaii
Following annexation, the Hawaiian Organic Act established the Territory of Hawaii. Kawānanakoa became one of five founders of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He attended the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri and was the first royal to attend a national presidential nominating convention, where he was successful in gaining affiliation between his party and the Democratic Party in a party vote at the convention to incorporate Hawaii. He voted to break a tie about inserting a plank into the convention platform regarding free silver.

The Democrats nominated Kawānanakoa to run for the position of delegate to the United States Congress for the Territory of Hawaii in 1900. He placed third behind the Home Rule Party victor Robert William Wilcox and the Republican nominated Samuel Parker. In the subsequent election cycle, his younger brother Kūhiō (who was a former member of the Home Rule Party) joined the Republicans while the Democrats including Kawānanakoa allied with Wilcox. There was allegedly no animosity between the two brothers over the political differences. Kūhiō ended up winning the election, becoming the first former royal prince to serve in the United States Congress.

Personal life
Records indicate that there may have been a written agreement of betrothal with Princess Kaʻiulani, that was quickly aborted. An unsubstantiated announcement dated February 3, 1898, was printed in The San Francisco Call and later reprinted in newspapers across the United States. According to the report, the betrothal was dependent upon the finalization of deeds to a sizeable real estate holding, transferred from Queen Kapiʻolani to both Kawānanakoa and Kalanianaʻole. On February 19, a denial of betrothal from Kawānanakoa was printed in the newspapers. Kapiʻolani did deed all her property, real and personal, to the brothers on February 10, with the express stipulation that the documentation not be executed until she was ready. Kapiʻolani wanted to hold off the transfer until she was too old to manage the property herself, and/or otherwise would believe she was close to death. She last saw the document with her notary Carlos A. Long, with her instructions to have changes made in the wording. Instead, the brothers had the deed executed immediately, without her knowledge.

Family lore also conflicts over the exact nature of her relationship with Kawānanakoa. Kaʻiulani's niece Mabel Robertson Lucas said that the two cousins were close but only like siblings. Nancy and Jean Francis Webb's 1962 biography of Kaʻiulani says that Kawānanakoa's eventual wife told an unnamed biographer or close friend that "of course I never could have married David if Kaʻiulani had lived".

On January 6, 1902, Kawānanakoa married Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell in a Roman Catholic ceremony officiated by Patrick William Riordan, Archbishop of San Francisco at the Occidental Hotel. His wife was the eldest daughter of Scots-Irish industrialist James Campbell and Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine Bright, who refused to let her daughter marry the prince until he signed a prenuptial agreement. Two days prior, his mother-in-law had remarried to Kawānanakoa's former political rival Samuel Parker. After their marriage, Abigail assumed the courtesy title of princess. Their children were Princess Abigail Kapiʻolani (1903–1961), Prince David Kalākaua (1904–1953), and Princess Lydia Liliʻuokalani (1905–1969). His descendants which continues through his daughter Kapiʻolani are recognized by factions of the Hawaiian community as heirs to the Hawaiian throne.

Kawānanakoa converted to Roman Catholicism in 1907, no doubt through the urging of his wife.

Kawānanakoa died of pneumonia June 2, 1908, in San Francisco. After an elaborate funeral, he was buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.

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John Owen Dominis

John Owen Dominis (March 10, 1832 – August 23, 1891) was prince consort of the Kingdom of Hawaii as the husband of Queen Liliuokalani from January 29, 1891, until his death that year.

Family
His father was a sea captain named John Dominis (1796–1846) who came to America in 1819 from Trieste during the Napoleonic Wars. He was often called Italian from then a family of Venetian Conti Palatini de Dominis de Arba (Count Palatines of Rab), that had its origins in the island of Rab, in Dalmatia. His mother, Mary Jones, was an American of English descent. Working for Josiah Marshall of Boston, Massachusetts, Captain Dominis sailed from North America across the Pacific, often stopping in Hawaii. One of his ships used on the trading voyages was called "Owhyhee" (an older transcription of 'O Hawai'i). The captain married Mary Lambert Jones (1803–1889), daughter of Owen Jones and Elizabeth Lambert, on October 9, 1821, and had two daughters, Mary Elizabeth (1825–1838) and Frances Ann Dominis (1829–1842). About 1831, they moved to Schenectady, New York, and son John Owen Dominis was born on March 10, 1832.

Early life
In 1837 the captain moved his wife and son from New York to Honolulu, Hawaii, leaving their two daughters at boarding school where they died young. King Kamehameha III awarded some land to the family in 1842 as settlement of a lawsuit with the British Consul Richard Charlton. The captain continued to take voyages to raise money for the construction of a large house. In 1846 he sailed for China on the Brig William Neilson, intending to purchase Chinese-made furniture for the house which was nearing completion. The ship was lost at sea, along with the American Agent George Brown, and Mary became a widow. Mary rented a suite of rooms to support herself and young John Owen. One of the first boarders established the American Legation in the house and named it "Washington Place". It was used as a governor's residence and is now a museum.

John attended a day school run by Mr. and Mrs. Johnston that was next to the Royal School founded for the children of the native Hawaiian nobility. Dominis would climb the fence to look at the princes and princesses, and became friends with them. For a time, Dominis was a mercantile clerk in San Francisco, and later he served as a clerk in a Honolulu commercial house. By 1856 he was on staff to a Prince, and accompanying the royal family on their travels.

Prince consort
On September 16, 1862 Dominis married Lydia Kamakaʻeha Pākī, later Queen Liliʻuokalani, whom he had met during school days. They had been engaged for two years, but had to delay their wedding due to the death of Prince Albert, the young son of King Kamehameha IV. The marriage was not happy. She wanted children of her own, but could not have any. John chose to socialize without her, and Mary Dominis looked down upon her non-caucasian daughter-in-law. Liliʻuokalani notes in her autobiography that his mother considered her an "intruder", but became more affectionate in her later years.

His marriage to Liliʻuokalani and his friendship with King Kamehameha V brought him many honors. For example, he was a Royal Commander of the Royal Order of Kamehameha, the Royal Order of Kalākaua, and several others. From 1863 he served on the King's Privy Council. Dominis served from 1864 to 1886 in the House of Nobles, and from 1868 until his death as Royal Governor of Oʻahu. He served on the Board of Health, Board of Education, Bureau of Immigration, and was Quartermaster General and Commissioner of Crown Lands. From 1878 to 1886 he served as Royal Governor of Maui. In 1886, he was appointed Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief.

According to his wife's testimony, Governor Dominis was a very dedicated freemason and held the 33rd degree.

Mary Dominis died on April 25, 1889, and he and Liliʻuokalani inherited Washington Place. Liliʻuokalani became Queen when her brother King Kalākaua died on January 20, 1891, which made Dominis Prince Consort. Dominis died less than a year later on August 27, 1891, in Washington Place and was buried in the Royal Mausoleum known as Mauna Ala.

Issue
He had a natural son, John ʻAimoku Dominis, with Mary Purdy Lamiki ʻAimoku, a servant of his wife, born January 9, 1883. Liliʻuokalani accepted her husband's constant unfaithfulness and adopted her husband's son in 1910 and changed his name to John ʻAimoku Dominis. He married Sybil McInerny and left descendants. They continued to live at Washington Place until Liliʻuokalani died on November 11, 1917.

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St Chad's College, Durham

St Chad's College is one of the two recognised colleges of Durham University. Founded in 1904 as St Chad’s Hall for the training of Church of England clergy, the college ceased theological training in 1971 and now accommodates students studying the full range of Durham University courses. Its members are termed "Chadsians" and is the smallest Durham college by number of undergraduates, but has extensive college library facilities and among the highest level of academic performance.

The college's main site is on the Bailey, occupying historic Georgian buildings at the east end of Durham Cathedral. It neighbours Hatfield College to its north, while St John's College and St Cuthbert's Society are to its south. The college is named after Saint Chad, a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon bishop known for spreading Christianity in the Mercian kingdom.

Although Durham students study their degree centrally with the university, St Chad’s runs its own collegiate studies and tutor system. College societies include the college boat club and theatre company Green Door Productions. Gowns are worn by students for formal dining, matriculation and some other college activities, and its members still say grace in Latin. St Chad’s has a traditional rivalry with the university's other recognised college, St John’s, with an annual "John's/Chad's Day" featuring sporting competition between the two colleges. The college became fully mixed in 1988, after eight decades of admitting men exclusively.

Hostel and hall
In 1902, Frederick Samuel Willoughby, vicar of Hooton Pagnell near Doncaster, opened St Chad's Hostel to prepare men of limited financial means for entry to Church of England theological colleges. He was supported by the lady of the manor, Julia Warde-Aldam, who in 1903 funded a dedicated building for the hostel in Hooton Pagnell.

The further financial support of Douglas Horsfall, a wealthy Liverpool businessman and devoted churchman (who also funded the building of several large Anglo-Catholic churches in his home city), made it possible in 1904 to establish a hall at Durham University as a sister institution to the Hooton Pagnell hostel, to allow students to read for university degrees alongside training for ordination. Durham University had a provision in its statutes to recognise independent colleges, permitting students to matriculate through those institutions and then to sit for Durham exams.

A licence from the university was obtained and St Chad's Hall opened in October 1904 at 1 South Bailey, Durham, with nineteen students. With the expansion to Durham, Willoughby withdrew from the project and the Revd Stephen Moulsdale, a Durham graduate who had been vice-principal of the hostel, became the first principal of the hall as well as principal of the hostel.

The college soon expanded into neighbouring buildings, starting with 28 North Bailey (adjoining 1 South Bailey) which was rented from the dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. In 1909, a small wooden chapel was constructed behind the South Bailey buildings, and dedicated by the Bishop of Jarrow.

The Durham hall and Hooton Pagnell hostel continued to operate in partnership, with students studying for a year at the hostel before moving to the hall to complete their studies, until 1916 when the Hooton Pagnell building was requisitioned as a war hospital and all teaching was moved to Durham. The hostel building was returned after the war, and re-opened for a short time, but the financial problems of running in two locations led to the hostel finally closing in 1921.

College
In 1918, after the college had established a number of endowed fellowships, the university recognised St Chad's as the university's second college.

The college continued to expand with the lease and purchase of further buildings on the Bailey, including Douglas House at 18 North Bailey, purchased in 1925. In 1928, the current chapel (intended as a temporary building) was built behind Douglas House, with the previous chapel building given to found St Chad's Church, Sunderland.

In 1937, C. E. Whiting's centenary history of the university recorded that the college had 55 students and five staff, but could easily double its numbers if accommodation were available.

Consolidation on North Bailey

In the 1960s, the college took steps to consolidate its site on North Bailey, with the houses at the junction of Bow Lane and North Bailey being demolished in 1961 to enable the construction of a new dining hall and quadrangle, designed by neo-classical architect Francis Johnson. These new buildings were joined to existing 18th century houses at 16–18 North Bailey to form the present Main College.

In 1965, the college's original home on South Bailey was exchanged with neighbouring St John's College for 22 and 22A North Bailey (now Grads House) which with other purchases gave the college a 95m-long frontage on North Bailey.

Later events
The college ceased formal ordination training in 1971, but remains a Church of England foundation with students studying for degrees across all departments of the university.

St Chad's was among the last university colleges in the UK to admit women undergraduates: as a part of a co-ordinated step-change in the university, the final all-male year entered in September 1987.

The college has continued to slowly expand, and new buildings have been acquired to allow for this increase, including former Durham School boarding house Trinity Hall as postgraduate accommodation, and additional houses on North Bailey.

I have always loved Saint Chad's College and it has been a joy to see the college go from strength to strength.... My spiritual home in Durham since 1939, Saint Chad's College represents to me the wholeness of faith and practice so needed in the universities and in the nation."

Buildings
Students who study at St Chad's are accommodated in nine different houses: Queen's Court, Epiphany House, Main College, Lightfoot House, Langford House, Grads and Ramsey House and Trinity Hall all accommodate undergraduates; Hallgarth Street and Trinity Hall, along with part of Main College, are home to the college's postgraduate community.

Most of the college buildings are Grade II listed. Grade I listed 12th-century castle walls run through the college's gardens.

Main College

Main College is located at 18 North Bailey, adjacent to Bow Lane, and consists of the college dining hall (the Moulsdale Hall), designed in 1961 by neo-classical architect Francis Johnson, joined to a number of primarily 18th-century houses along North Bailey.

At the centre of Main College, adjacent to the Moulsdale Hall, is the Cassidy Quad. This was originally an open quadrangle between buildings, but was given a glass roof for the college's centenary in 2004. Main College houses the college's major public areas, including the Junior, Middle and Senior Common Rooms (JCR, MCR and SCR), bar, libraries, the punishment chamber (gymnasium), and most college offices.

The college's croquet lawn, chapel and laundry are behind main college, along with walled gardens associated with the historic houses that make up the college.

A graffito on the Bow Lane side of the dining hall reads "Pulchra Semper" (Latin: always beautiful), and has been in place since at least the 1970s.

Queen's Court
Queen's Court, 1 and 2 North Bailey, is a grade II listed building located at the junction between Saddler Street, North Bailey, and Owengate. It was built in the early 19th century and contains 24 student rooms. The college for many years occupied only 1 North Bailey, while no. 2 housed the Music Department. The two parts were reunited in 2013.

Epiphany House
Epiphany House, 5 North Bailey, is a Grade II listed house built around 1700 and acquired by the college in 2006 to house undergraduates.

Lightfoot House
Lightfoot House, 19 North Bailey (directly across the road from Durham Cathedral) is one of the buildings that comprise the college. It consists of two adjacent Grade II listed buildings that were constructed in the 18th century and have since been connected internally. The building is used as a hall of residence for first-year and third-year undergraduates. It is named after Joseph Barber Lightfoot, who was Bishop of Durham from 1879 to 1889.

Langford House
Langford House, 21 North Bailey, is a Grade II listed building built in the 18th century and named after a former Judaism scholar and College Chaplain. For many decades, it was the home of the college's chaplains, but today is used as a hall of residence for third year (and some first year) undergraduate students.

Grads House
Grads House, 22 North Bailey, is a Grade II listed building used as undergraduate accommodation. The building is largely late 18th-century, with a rainwater head dated 1796, but it contains a notable 17th century staircase. Its name derives from its use in the 1960s and 70s as a residence for students studying for postgraduate diplomas in Theology.

Ramsey House
Ramsey House, 25 North Bailey, is a Grade II listed building built around 1820, now owned by the college and now used primarily for undergraduate accommodation. It is named for Arthur Michael Ramsey, the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury who was once resident in Ramsey House. He was also a member of the Governing Council for the college.

For many decades, Ramsey House was the home of successive college principals, but it is now given over to student accommodation. There are now seven student rooms, a well-equipped kitchen, a self-contained fellows' flat, and the Ann Loades room, available for meetings.

Trinity Hall
Trinity Hall is a former Durham School boarding house, located on Grove Street, across the river from the main college site. It was built in 1847 as the Second Master's House, later called Caffinites after Benjamin Charles Caffin, Second Master from 1863 to 1877, before becoming the school's junior house under the name Ferens House. It was acquired by the college in 2002 and converted into housing for 25 postgraduates and a house for the college principal. In 2017 the principal's house was converted into additional student accommodation.

Hallgarth Street
30 Hallgarth Street, located across the river from the main college site, is a Grade II listed building constructed around 1840. Formerly the college chaplain's house, it is now used as postgraduate accommodation.

Libraries
There are three library rooms on the ground floor of Main College (the Bettenson Room and the Brewis and Williams Libraries). The Williams Library doubles as a multi-media room and is often used for meetings and lectures. There are two more libraries on the first floor: the Wetherall Library, which houses most of the theology and philosophy collections; and the Reserve Library, which contains the core curricula texts for all of the courses currently on offer in the university (as well as the special church history and liturgy collections). The Fenton Library and the Trounson Library, which opened in October 2006, are located on the third floor. Comprising three separate rooms, the Fenton and Trounson Libraries contain individual study carrels and are used primarily for private study. The college is unusual (in the Durham collegiate context) in the extent to which it has invested in libraries and study space.

The Durham University Library holds most of the college's medieval manuscripts and its oldest books, which include a number of 16th and 17th century imprints including Quintus Aurelius Symmachus's Epistolae familiares and the Concilia omnia.

Chapel

The college chapel, located behind Main College, was built in 1928, replacing an earlier chapel built on South Bailey in 1909. Intended only as a temporary building, the wood-frame building seats 120 people and has been in continuous use. The chapel's contents are older than its structures, with older donated pews from various churches and a ballroom dance floor from a decommissioned ocean-liner. The architecture of the chapel has been described as bearing resemblance to a "colonial mission chapel". Its reredos of 1923 was designed by William H. Wood.

In 2023, the chapel underwent a thorough refurbishment including a new roof, the restoration and replacement of all damaged segments of its wooden cladding, new lighting and heating systems. This project was paid for in its entirety by the generosity of alumni, supporters and a number of Trusts and Foundations; the names of all who contributed may be seen on a Donors' Board inside the Chapel.

The chapel is overseen by the college chaplain, an Anglican priest. The college's roots in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England are still evident in services in the college chapel. Chapel attendance is entirely voluntary, given that the college accepts students without regard to their religious background.

The college maintains a collegiate choral tradition, headed by the director of music. Membership in the college choir is by audition. The choir is involved in the College's outreach work amongst schools and other organisations in the North East and, when possible, goes on tours. The college offers a number of choral and organ scholarships every year.

Boat House
The college's boat house is located on college-owned land on the banks of the River Wear, below the college's original home at 1 South Bailey, now part of St John's College. In 2016, the boat house and landing stage were completely replaced.

Academic dress
Along with most Bailey Colleges, St Chad's students wear their college gowns to formal hall, matriculation, college congregations and other academic or formal events. St Chad's has also retained its own distinctive academic hood (of black stuff with green lining and trim): previously designed for pre-1970s ordinands, the hood is today worn by honorary fellows. The rector has a distinctive robe (a full-sleeved gown of black corded silk, faced with silver-trimmed palatinate purple, and with sleeves lined with palatinate purple); college officers generally wear the academic regalia associated with their highest degrees.

Formal hall
Twice a week throughout most of the whole academic year, members of the college gather for formal hall. This tradition brings students and staff together, though fellows, tutors and their guests sit at high table. This not only enables students who are living out to visit college, but it enables the college to entertain official guests regularly.

Members of the college are required to wear academic gown to formal hall and are turned away and fined when entering the hall late, that is, after High Table have entered. Students and guests stand when the bell signals that the High Table party is arriving. Everyone shall remain standing until a senior student (usually JCR/MCR President, or whoever is presiding at Low Table) says the Grace:

Students are usually refrained from standing throughout the meal, and if must do so for an urgent matter, should stand up and catch the eye of the Principal (or whoever is presiding at High Table) and bow towards them. Once bell sounds at the end of the meal, all students stand again for the evening Grace, remaining standing until after the high table party leaves. A senior student would then recite:

The tradition of "pennying", as part of a meal or drinking game, whereby dropping a penny in a person's drink means that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof) is banned at St Chad's College, with risk of possible expulsion from the dining hall by staff members and even fines.

Traditions and customs
Along with many of the ancient colleges, St Chad's has evolved its own traditions and customs over the centuries.

Though all Durham University students now participate in large matriculation ceremonies in the cathedral, St Chad's has, for over a hundred years, conducted its own matriculation. This signifies that students are obliged to follow the regulations of both the university and of the college. Matriculants wear academic dress at the ceremony and every student signs the university's matriculation book, thereby sealing an oath to adhere to the rules and traditions of the college and the university.

For over a half-century, the college has conducted an Advent procession in Durham Cathedral. The candle-lit choral service is unusual in not solely anticipating Christmas, but in anticipating the Second Coming, which is the traditional theological focus of the Advent season itself. The choir splits into two, with one group seated in the choir and the other processing from the entrance to the cathedral. The two groups call back and forth to each other, using chants based on the Great Advent Antiphons. These antiphons form the basis not only of the advent procession, but also of the popular advent hymn, "O come, O come, Emmanuel". The procession is advertised widely in the City of Durham; after the event the college hosts its annual reception for city residents.

The patron saint of the college is Saint Chad of Mercia. On his feast day (2 March), the college features a day-long celebration and begins early in the morning with a noisy wake-up call. After a green breakfast, students wear green clothes and body paint to various events and challenges held throughout the day, including a large mass service in Durham Cathedral and a noon-day run around Palace Green. Various musical and social events are held throughout the day and evening. The college also has a number of feasts throughout the year. Both the Dining Hall and the Quad are used to provide a four-course meal for up to 250 people. Among the largest is the Principal's Feast, usually scheduled at the end of the Epiphany term. The Rector's Feast, at the end of the Easter term, welcomes the rector to the college for a formal "visitation".

Bars
St Chad's College has two bars - one its traditional cellar bar which is an atmospheric social hub built into the College's cellars, the second a more recent addition in the College's central Quad. The St Chad's Bar is one of the few remaining college bars still run by full-time undergraduate students elected by the student body.

Junior Common Room
Most undergraduates are members of the Junior Common Room (JCR). The JCR committees are elected by the members of the JCR, with these committees running events, aspects of student life and representing JCR members at various levels. As of August 2021, the JCR has the following committees:

 * JCR Executive – Has overall responsibility for the activities of the JCR. Consists of the President, Vice-President, Wellbeing Officer, Secretary, Treasurer, Domestic Representative, Bar President, Social Secretary, Representatives' Committee Chair, Sports Officer and the Chair.
 * Bar Committee - Runs the college bar. Consists of the Bar President, Manager, Secretary, Treasurer and Head Cellarman.
 * Social Committee - Runs social events throughout the course of the year. Consists of the Social Secretary, Secretary of the Social Committee, Treasurer, Decorations Officer, Technical Officer and Sponsorship & Publicity Officer.
 * Wellbeing Committee - Responsible for running campaigns, providing sexual health supplies, signposting and running wellness events around periods of intense academic pressures. Consists of the Welfare Officer, Assistant Welfare Officer, Campaigns Officer(s) and Livers-Out Officer(s).
 * Wine Cellar Committee - Sells wine before formals as well as hosting events throughout the year. Consists of the Keeper of the Cellar, Treasurer, Steward(s) and Assistant Steward(s).
 * Charities Committee - Fundraises for charities, operates the toastie bar and organises volunteering. Consists of the Charities' Committee Chair, Treasurer, Outreach Officer, Secretary, Publicity Officer, Toastie Bar Manager, Toastie Bar Head Chef.
 * Green Committee - Active in ensuring the College community does all it can to be environmentally sustainable.
 * Representatives Committee - Responsible for furthering the interests and concerns of members of marginalised communities. Consists of the Representatives Committee Chair, the Disabilities Officer(s), the Women's Officer, the International Officer(s), the LGBTQIA+ Officer(s), the People of Colour Officer(s), the Social Mobility Officer(s), the Outreach Officer(s), and the Junior College Representative(s).

Other smaller JCR committees include the Candlemas Ball, Sports Committee, and Charity Fashion Show amongst others.

Middle Common Room
Most if not all postgraduates (consists of all the PhD, MPhil, MA, MSc, and LLM students and students on a four-year Integrated Master's programme) are members of the Middle Common Room (MCR). Similar with the JCR, the MCR executives are elected by members of the MCR, and is the representative body for postgraduate students at St Chad’s College. With 150 postgraduates each year, St Chad's enjoy the highest proportion of postgraduates studying and researching alongside undergraduates in any Durham colleges. St Chad's MCR is particularly active in research and host regular “Research Forums” where students have the opportunity to present their research to a non-specialist audience. Under its Constitution and Standing Orders, the MCR is governed by the following executives:

 * President of the MCR (ex officio Governor) – exercise overall responsibility for furthering the Aims and Objectives of the MCR through liaison with the Executives of the JCR and SCR, and any other bodies within the University. The President of St Chad's MCR is also ex officio Governor of St Chad's College.
 * Secretary of the MCR – administer and take, distribute and file the Minutes of all General Meetings of the MCR and of the Executive Committee. They are also responsible for communicating business of the MCR to its members.
 * Treasurer of the MCR – administer the finances of the MCR and is responsible for preparing quarterly reports for the scrutiny of College committees.
 * Six Other Executive Officers – six other Executive Officers is elected and take such responsiblities as necessary for the smooth running of the activities of the MCR.
 * Chair and Keeper of the Great Seal of the MCR – The Chair of the MCR is an administrative post not of Executive rank in the MCR of St Chad's College. It holds responsibility to preside over all General Meetings of the MCR and ensure that the Great Seal of the MCR is not to be removed from the City of Durham, hence its title.

Societies and events
St Chad's College Boat Club (SCCBC) is the college rowing club and was founded in 1906. It operates from the college boathouse on the River Wear.

2011 has seen the re-establishment of a theatre company at St Chad's, Green Door Productions, which aims to promote all aspects of theatre within the college, be it acting, directing, set design or backstage work. In 2011, Australian actor Russell Crowe visited the college to give a masterclass in acting.

Every year the college hosts a Candlemas Ball. Founded in 1956, this is one of the older and more flamboyant balls in the university. It is recognised, along with University College's June Ball, as being one of Durham's versions of the University of Cambridge's May Balls. Due to restrictions on social activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Candlemas 64 was cancelled, with the decision made for the next event to be called Candlemas 65.

Arms and motto
The College was granted its arms in 1951 by the College of Arms. Its blazon are as follows:

 * Vert a Cross potent quadrate Or in chief a Durham Mitre of the last between two Lions rampant Argent.

The college's motto, non vestra sed vos (literally "not yours but you") reflects the college's beginnings, when it sought to enable students of modest means to gain access to a university education. The motto commits the college to being concerned with the person, rather than with what the person owns.

Status
St Chad's is a "recognised college" of Durham University, but it is not maintained or governed by the university (St John's College has the same status). The college was originally licensed by the university as a hall of residence, becoming a college in 1919. The distinction between colleges and halls at that time was more a matter of style than substance, as nothing but the name changed. The college had argued for the change because it had gradually built up several endowed fellowships, which it thought were characteristic more of a college than of a hall (that said, other halls in Durham quickly followed suit without having such endowments). The term "recognised college" was first used in the 1937 statutes to refer to those colleges not maintained by the university.

Governance
The college's visitor is the Archbishop of York, currently Stephen Cottrell. The visitor exercises customary visitorial functions and is the court of final appeal for any matters referred to the archbishop by the governors. The visitor is appointed by the governors for a renewable five-year period. In matters regarding the university itself (such as those brought forward by students), the university's visitor has jurisdiction.

The college's rector is Andrew Tremlett, Dean of St Paul's (previously Dean of Durham 2016-22). The rector is the titular head of the college, who has responsibility for monitoring the college's furtherance of its Anglican foundation and tradition. Ceremonially, the rector presides at certain official functions in college: the role is in some ways akin to the chancellor's role in the university.

The college is formed by up to twenty governors who are its legal members, and who act as the trustees of the charity and directors of the limited company. The Chair of Governors is Father Mark Woodruff, an alumnus whose work mainly involves engagement with the civil voluntary sector, especially in the fields of social development and inclusion. He is also a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Westminster, serving also at the Ukrainian Greek Catholic of the Holy Family of London. The university and the dioceses of York, Durham, Newcastle and Carlisle all nominate governors, though they must be elected by the college. The Principal and the Presidents of the Senior, Middle and Junior Common Rooms serve as governors ex officio, and the undergraduates and the tutors may also each nominate a governor for election. Other governors are elected from outside the college.

Finance
The college has a modest endowment, which is enough to fund significant annual capital improvements, and a number of named scholarships. A private charity, as opposed to a public body, the college's funding comes largely from income raised from student residence fees, from its commercial and conference trade, from philanthropic gifts, and from an annual college fee paid by the University, calculated to match that spent on each maintained college to facilitate the colleges' wider student experience responsibilities. The college is a registered charity. Its annual turnover is £3.1 million.

Admissions
Competition for membership in the college is strong and the St Chad's is regularly one of the most over-subscribed colleges in Durham University in terms of applications per place. Applications for postgraduate places similarly outnumber availability. Admissions have been managed centrally by Durham University since 2014. Like other colleges, applicants are considered chiefly on the basis of academic merit, and 90% of undergraduates at St Chad's attain a first or upper second class degree.

In the recent past, the college was one of four Durham colleges designated by the university to accept open postgraduate applications in all disciplines, though now virtually all colleges accept such applicants. St Chad's has a number of dedicated postgraduate residences and an unusually high percentage (more than 30%) of postgraduate students.

Patronage
The governors of the college possess the advowson for ten benefices of the Church of England. Five are located in the Diocese of Liverpool (St Agnes', Toxteth; St Stephen's with St Catherine's; St Faith's, Great Crosby; St Paul's, Stoneycroft; and St Margaret's, Toxteth), two in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Hadley (St Mary), and Wratting (Great and Little) and one in each in the Durham (Longnewton), Hereford (Pontesbury) and Leicester (Syston) dioceses. Many of the advowsons were given to the college in the early twentieth century. In the past, the patron would have had complete power to appoint the new priest; that power is now exercised jointly with the local bishop and parish (and often with other patrons).

Institutes
Though most Durham colleges are primarily residential rather than teaching institutions, St Chad's has its own research and academic staff. Responsibility for purely academic matters is overseen by the Principal in consultation with the Fellows, one of whom, Professor Tony Chapman, is head of research and Director of Policy&Practice, working in the fields of government policy and conducting primary research into regional development, regional economics and third sector activities. Other professorial and research fellows and academics associated with the college often work in conjunction with various university departments. Still others work chiefly outside the college and university.

Charitable activities
In addition to its primary charitable object of supporting students and scholars in Durham, the college supports the students in volunteering in charities and communities in the local region. To widen participation, the college has created partnerships with a number of secondary schools in the North East and beyond and has worked with primary schools in County Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, and further afield.

Collegiate studies
All Durham colleges are interdisciplinary, enabling staff and students to broaden their study and research interests. St Chad's runs a collegiate studies programme, (currently named Outside the Box) which complements departmentally-based studies. The programme is explicitly justice-orientated, reflecting the ethos and history of the college. Students and staff are introduced to complex social issues; they are invited to participate in a weekly programme of training-events that go beyond traditional transferable skills to include such things as ethical decision-making and eco-friendly life-strategies.

College fellows
Senior college officers include the Principal, the Vice-Principal, the Finance & Operations Director, the Chaplain, and the Librarian. In addition, St Chad's has over 30 college fellows, research fellows and research associates. There are around 50 college tutors who act as mentors for both undergraduates and postgraduates. The College offers a number of visiting fellowships to academics of all disciplines. A further 100 university staff associate themselves with the college, chiefly through membership in the Senior Common Room. The college awards honorary fellowships to those who have made significant contributions to the College, the church or to public life.

List of principals

 * 1904 Stephen R. P. Moulsdale (also Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, 1934–36)
 * 1937 John S. Brewis (became Archdeacon of Doncaster)
 * 1947 Theodore S. Wetherall
 * 1965 John C. Fenton (became Canon and then Sub-Dean, Christ Church, Oxford)
 * 1978 Ronald C. Trounson
 * 1989 David Jasper (became Dean of Theology, Glasgow University)
 * 1991 Eric Halladay
 * 1994 Duane Arnold
 * 1997 Joseph P. M. Cassidy
 * 2016 Margaret Masson

Notable alumni

 * Matthew Amroliwala, BBC television news presenter
 * Clifford Barker – Dip.Theol. (1952) – Bishop of Whitby (1976–1983) and Bishop of Selby (1983–1991)
 * Jonathan Batty, cricketer, Surrey and Gloucestershire wicketkeeper and opening batsman
 * Stephen Bicknell, organ designer and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music
 * Arthur Bostrom, actor who played Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo!
 * Sydney Caulton, Dean of Auckland, Bishop of Melanesia
 * Nicholas Chamberlain – BA, PhD American Literature – Bishop of Grantham
 * Alan Chesters (bishop) – BA Mod. History – Bishop of Blackburn 1989–2003, made Hon. Fellow in 2010
 * J. Michael Clarke, composer and musician
 * Charles Mark Townshend Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross, BBC Producer and director, elected hereditary peer 2011
 * Anthony Crichton-Stuart, art historian
 * Adrian Dannatt, child actor, artist and journalist
 * Carla Denyer - Mechanical Engineering (2009) - co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
 * Steve Easterbrook – Natural Sciences – CEO of PizzaExpress and then CEO of Wagamama, two British casual dining chains, before returning to McDonald's in 2013 to become CEO in March 2015
 * Harry Entwistle – Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
 * Brian Evans, cricketer, Hertfordshire batsman
 * Gary Ferguson – BA Hons. (1st 1985), PhD(1989) – Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Virginia
 * Tim FitzHigham – award-winning British comedian, author, and world record holder
 * Keith Getty OBE – BA Music (1996) – composer and hymnwriter
 * Richard Gillings – BA, Dip. Biblical Studies – Archdeacon of Macclesfield (1994–2004)
 * Drexel Gomez – 1959 – Primate of the West Indies
 * John Robert Hall – BA Hons Theol. – Dean, Westminster Abbey from 2006, Dean of the Order of the Bath, since 2006, made a Hon. Fellow in 2009.
 * Patrick Hawes BA (Music), MA (1981),FRCO composer
 * Michael Henshall – BA (1954), DipTh (1956) – Bishop Suffragan of Warrington(1976–96)
 * Gwyneth Herbert, singer and composer

 * James Holland - BA (1992) - historian, writer, and broadcaster.
 * Alan Horsley – BA (1958) – Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness (1988 to 1991)
 * John Inge – BSc (1977), MA (1994) PhD – Honorary Fellow, Bishop of Worcester
 * Michael Ipgrave – PhD (1999) – Bishop of Lichfield
 * David Jasper, Professor in Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow
 * Owen Johnson MBE – English Literature (1988) – dendrologist
 * Sir Jonathan Jones KCB KC – Law (1984) – Chief Executive of the Government Legal Department
 * John McManners, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford and winner of the Wolfson History Prize
 * Allan Mallinson, novelist and military historian
 * Cecil Richard Norgate, former Bishop of Masasi, Tanzania
 * Tim O'Gorman- BA Law – cricketer, former Derbyshire opening batsman
 * Richard Ovenden OBE – BA Economic/Modern History (1985) – Bodley's Librarian, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
 * Hugh Pearman MBE – BA Eng. Lang. and Lit.- architecture and design critic, The Sunday Times, since 1986
 * General Tim Radford – BA Politics, 1984 - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO
 * Anthony Russell, Honorary Fellow, retired Bishop of Ely
 * John Seaford – BA (1967), DipTh (1968) – Dean of Jersey and Rector of St Helier (1993–2005)
 * Martin Speight, former Durham County Cricket Club wicketkeeper
 * Michael Spurr – BA Economics + History – Director of Operations, HM Prison Service
 * David Strang CBE – Engineering (1980) – Chief Constable, Lothian and Borders Police (2007–13) and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland (2013-18)
 * Robert Swan – BA Ancient History (1976–1979) – Honorary Fellow, Explorer – the first person to reach both the South and North Pole on foot
 * Martin Warner, M.A., PhD, Bishop of Chichester
 * Tim Willcox – BA Spanish – BBC television news presenter

Other notable associated people

 * John Galbraith Graham MBE, noted British crossword puzzle compiler – 'Araucaria' of The Guardian
 * Giles Ramsay – theatre director, producer and playwright, Fellow
 * Michael Ramsey (Baron Ramsey of Canterbury) PC – former College Tutor, Fellow, Governor and Visitor, Archbishop of Canterbury (1961–1974)
 * Maeve Sherlock (Baroness Sherlock of Durham) OBE, awarded life peerage in May 2010, Honorary Fellow, former Chief executive of the Refugee Council and policy advisor to Gordon Brown
 * David Stancliffe, Fellow, retired Bishop of Salisbury

In 2022, singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor was voted as an honorary membership of the JCR in recognition of her contribution to music, which often features at St Chad's events. Other honorary memberships awarded in the academic year include the former JCR President, the former Bar President, and students of a twinned College in Ukraine.

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Talk:Taut-line hitch

Tying description and illustration for #1799
Now that there is a discussion of the different versions, the different tying methods should be illustrated -- Especially #1799 since that seems to be the most secure version of this knot. --Dfred 15:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Bit the bullet today and created images for all three variations. Other major edits as well. --Dfred 23:38, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hope you didn't chip a tooth. Great job. Sfahey 14:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh heh, thanks.  I've been doing related stuff on Rolling hitch also.  This work has made clear to me that coming up with reasonable guidelines to address the vagaries of knot naming (i.e. how to handle naming conflicts, consolidation, disambiguation, redirects, etc.) will be an important step in making progress in getting the knotting topics into better shape overall. --Dfred 04:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Taut?
Um, shouldn't the foto of the finished taut-line hitch be, uh, taut? I mean, like, isn't that kind of the point? ;>)} jaknouse 17:46, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I have to agree there... :) --Dfred 21:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Backwards?
Most pictures I've seen of this knot show the final half-hitch tossed in reverse of the way the photo demonstrates, in this case being thrown "over and under" instead of the "under and over" shown. Either way, it tightens pretty well, but I wonder which version holds better. Sfahey 21:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, the real taut-line hitch is not what's shown in the photos. The last half hitch is backwards. Rracecarr 22:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmmm, I believe the main issue here is one of nomenclature, which is a big problem in general for knotting... The actual question is whether the "taut-line hitch" is a description of a class of knots where a friction hitch is tied around the standing part of the rope in order to produce a tensionable setup or whether it only describes one particular method of accomplishing that.  Specifically two similar hitches are often tied around the standing part of a rope resulting functionally in a "taut-line hitch", they are: the Rolling Hitch (Ashley #1734) and the Magnus Hitch (#1736).  It is possible that Scouting or some other organization considers the Rolling Hitch version "correct", but they are both equivalently secure if worked up properly.  (And, in fact, there are other friction hitches that would give even more security.) Personally I'm in agreement with Ashley that the Magnus Hitch version (pictured) lays better and has somewhat less propensity to roll. However I believe that both forms are valid and should be discussed by the article.  Actually it would be nice to have a photo of both versions, preferably in the same image, for comparison purposes.  I'll wait a little while for comment on this before proceeding with editing in this direction. --Dfred 21:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Huh? Are you saying that the Magnus hitch (illustrated on http://www.cruising.sailingcourse.com/advanced_knots.htm just under a picture of what I think is the "correct" taut-line hitch) turns into an effective adjustable knot that can be called a "taut-line hitch" if they're tied around the standing line? They look way different to me. Sfahey 02:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, that page discusses some of the difficulties with terminology surrounding these closely related knots. But it nevertheless falls prey to the allure of trying to use names to unambiguously describe knots.  The main problem is that the term Magnus Hitch has historically been used for both #1734 and #1736, this is discussed in Ashley's description of #1736.  Regarding the two knots in the lower picture, the top one is #1735, which is very similar to #1734 (the lower knot) but rearranges the initial wraps.  This rearrangement is sometimes referred to as a making a "tuck" when forming #1734, for instance at .  (Note the specific reference to #1735 there.) Ashley refers to what we are calling the Taut-line hitch as the "Adjustable Hitch" (#1800) and illustrates it in the manner of, which you referred to as "correct".  However in the description for #1800 he states (and the caps are original, not intended as shouting): "The ADJUSTABLE HITCH is based on the MAGNUS or ROLLING HITCH and is closely related to the MIDSHIPMANS'S KNOT, the difference being in the arrangement of the second turn.  If the concluding hitch is reversed there will be less tendency to twist.  Slide the knot either way and it should remain without rendering."  The comment about the "concluding hitch" is germane to the discussion here and appears to indicate that the adjustable hitch/taut-line hitch may be tied either way and still be considered functionally the same knot. There is no question addressing which knot is which is a difficult subject sometimes, and it's easy to make mistakes.  I've not had nearly enough tea this morning, so please check my comments for accuracy.  :-).  Dfred 13:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I should have also noted that Ashley #1799 illustrates a knot which uses #1735 to form an adjustable knot (as suggested in the animatedknots.com citation above.) All three (four?) versions of these very similar "adjustable hitches" are probably worth discussing in the same wikipedia article with an explanation of the strengths and weaknesses of each.--Dfred 15:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * So I went for it... I added a Variations section with accompanying illustration. Hopefully it's suitable.--Dfred 03:05, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Reassessment
The variations section is a plus; but to get the next grade (B-class): the lead should summarize the article and there should be references. Also, there article seems to waffle between is this a specific knot or a class of knots? With many variations (I personally never saw it tied to post before but rather around the standing part of the rope), the article should probably cover it as a class with variations. A photo of the knot with all three half hitches the same way would be good too (which is also how BSA any others use it). Leave response here, I've set a watch. Rlevse 17:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I wasn't necessarily expecting an upgrade in the quality scale, but it is helpful to receive feedback from someone more familiar with scouting whether this seemed like a reasonable direction to go for this page.  I'll see what I can do about the waffling.  :)  If you or someone else sure of BSA's specific method of tying wants to note which one it is at the end of the Variations section, that would be great.  I've already put a request up top here about adding tying instruction text and photos for the purportedly most secure version, #1799, with the "tuck" and final half-hitch in the same direction.  Thanks.  --Dfred 20:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The place you left a request for reassessment is for asking for a change in the quality/class rating. The photo here: http://www.animatedknots.com/rollinghitchboating/ with the white rope of the right side of the page is how BSA teaches how to tie it. Rlevse 20:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Understood, sorry about that. Thanks for the info. --Dfred 21:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Very nice, B-class now. Rlevse 09:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Help?
I feel somewhat stupid, can someone please explain the purpose of the tautline hitch in a simpler way?--Montaced (talk) 01:24, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I like ot for two reasons: 1. It is perfect for tent lines, where you pull the center of the shorter length a bit to tighten it, and then slide the knot down to "lock" the line at the new, shorter, tighter length; 2. Trying to tie it every couple of months tests my memory! All the knots I learned thirty years ago I can do blindfolded, but these newer ones need ffrequent updating. Sfahey (talk) 14:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Is Hubble Space Telescope reference okay to use?
A user at 130.76.32.145 removed the referenced claim that this knot was used on STS-82 to service the HST. This edit appeared to be made in good faith. The referenced article quotes a ground engineer saying he instructed the astronauts to use the "tent-line hitch" in parachute cord as part of an improvised repair to the telescope's outer insulation blanket. I admit this isn't the strongest reference as, technically, it is hearsay since the engineer may never have verified that the astronauts actually used the knot he recommended. However, given the way NASA scripts things like this it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume they followed the instructions carefully. If this is the objection, and others think it's significant, then I propose adding something along the lines of "...is said to have been used...".

And of course removal isn't out of the question, but I do think it provides a nice concrete example of the relevance of knots in the modern world. Thoughts? --Dfred (talk) 14:28, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I thought the anecdote was charming. Too often these sorts of comments in Wikipedia get edited away. Would be nice if someone could track down the astronaut. He would likely recall the circumstances exactly. Kd4ttc (talk)

#1799 ?
Both the infobox and the "Security" section make reference to #1799; however, the knot numbers illustrated in the article are marked as 1734, 1735, 1736, 1800, 1855, 1856 (illustration implies that it's the same as 1800), and 1857. Also, the "Security" section mentions two versions of 1800, one of which has a reversed concluding hitch - is this alternate version 1857? Someone familiar with the topic should probably clarify these points. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 16:07, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noticing that. Originally I had used #1799/#1800/#1800-reversed for the three variations, later I found in another ABOK chapter the three knots were covered by three sequential numbers and switched to that numbering.  I apparently missed those old numbers in the security section.   Fixed.  --Dfred (talk) 14:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that makes much more sense now! cmadler (talk) 15:14, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Nice to see knot instructions
I've seen wikipedia entries that are how-to articles get edited out because Wikipedia isn't supposed to be how-to. I've long felt that was too doctrinaire. Knots are a nice place to include step by step instructions. It's so nice to show people how to make the knots, perhaps allowing individual to make the knot and work it while reading about the knot. I hope the excellent illustrative photographs or drawings are kept. Kd4ttc (talk) 15:19, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

i just started a section and as editing Kinda a newbie question, the credits and it my efforts were undone w/o explanation?
Kinda a newbie question i guess Thetreespyder (talk) 01:02, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

 * Hi, I took a look at your now reverted addition. The main problem was that it included unattributed opinion, presumably yours. Wikipedia has no opinions about anything. We only report opinions that recognized commentators have published elsewhere. "Joe Blow wrote that the reef knot is suitable for tying parcels.(reference: Joe Blow's Big Knot Book, 2006, The Publishing Co. London. page 146)" Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:03, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

i'm very sorry but the 1st paragraph of that is full of quotes with quotation marks ABoK#'s and a citing to ABoK properly in credits. i have been reading and researching that book on/off for 40yrs. Was working on rest of credits and wiped out during the first 10 minutes of writing? While in process please? Then would seem the copy/pasted quotations themselves where disputed?Thetreespyder (talk) 11:29, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

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