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	<title>Comments on: &#8216;God Save the Queen&#8217;?</title>
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	<description>Plaid Assembly Member for South Wales West including  Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot and Swansea</description>
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		<title>By: Richard Davies</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1#comment-1127</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I have been a long time follower of Paid, I have always shied away from the Republican/Separatist aspects.

In a Sporting sense I have always felt that when representing Great Britain, Welsh athletes should have the Union Flag and British National Anthem. Obviously in Commonwealth Games the more Welsh flag waving and anthem singing the better!

I do wholeheartedly condemn the decision to prevent non-national flags from being displayed. People in the stands should be able to wave whatever they like, and athletes should equally be permitted wave or drape themselves in anything from a dishcloth to County Borough Flag - wouldn&#039;t that be something to see, a Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council flag on the breathless winner of a Gold Medal!

Anthem-wise I have no affection for God Save the Queen wherever it is sung. It is, to me the English National Anthem and really has no place in representing a devolved Great Britain. I would argue that rather than having ‘Hen Wlad fy Nhadau’ replace or be sung before &#039;God save the Queen&#039; for Welsh Athletes the creation of a British Anthem separate from that of England would be a better course of action.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I have been a long time follower of Paid, I have always shied away from the Republican/Separatist aspects.</p>
<p>In a Sporting sense I have always felt that when representing Great Britain, Welsh athletes should have the Union Flag and British National Anthem. Obviously in Commonwealth Games the more Welsh flag waving and anthem singing the better!</p>
<p>I do wholeheartedly condemn the decision to prevent non-national flags from being displayed. People in the stands should be able to wave whatever they like, and athletes should equally be permitted wave or drape themselves in anything from a dishcloth to County Borough Flag &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t that be something to see, a Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council flag on the breathless winner of a Gold Medal!</p>
<p>Anthem-wise I have no affection for God Save the Queen wherever it is sung. It is, to me the English National Anthem and really has no place in representing a devolved Great Britain. I would argue that rather than having ‘Hen Wlad fy Nhadau’ replace or be sung before &#8216;God save the Queen&#8217; for Welsh Athletes the creation of a British Anthem separate from that of England would be a better course of action.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy Clulow</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1#comment-1082</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Clulow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Originally back in the 1980&#039;s .org (USA) and .org.uk (UK) domains were intended for organisations or individual who could not be classed as COMmercial and did not qualify for .com (USA) and .co.uk (UK). Nowadays such restrictions and conventions have all but broken down, although various second-level UK domains are reserved, such as .gov.uk, .ac.uk etc.

Personally I always recommend Welsh clients register UK domains rather than USA domains if their intention is to register only one domain. There are however often good reasons for registering other domains to protect a brand or prevent mis-use. I, for instance have about 10 variations of Webs Wonder registered.

As far as Plaid politicians are concerned, in my view .org.uk is probably a better &#039;main&#039; domain than .org because even though they may not support a United Kingdom, I imagine few would wish to be mistaken for Americans.

.cym is the solution we are all waiting for. Until then, it’s a matter of choosing the least-worst alternative and not getting too hung up on the whole domain thing when there are far more important issues to focus on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally back in the 1980&#8217;s .org (USA) and .org.uk (UK) domains were intended for organisations or individual who could not be classed as COMmercial and did not qualify for .com (USA) and .co.uk (UK). Nowadays such restrictions and conventions have all but broken down, although various second-level UK domains are reserved, such as .gov.uk, .ac.uk etc.</p>
<p>Personally I always recommend Welsh clients register UK domains rather than USA domains if their intention is to register only one domain. There are however often good reasons for registering other domains to protect a brand or prevent mis-use. I, for instance have about 10 variations of Webs Wonder registered.</p>
<p>As far as Plaid politicians are concerned, in my view .org.uk is probably a better &#8216;main&#8217; domain than .org because even though they may not support a United Kingdom, I imagine few would wish to be mistaken for Americans.</p>
<p>.cym is the solution we are all waiting for. Until then, it’s a matter of choosing the least-worst alternative and not getting too hung up on the whole domain thing when there are far more important issues to focus on.</p>
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		<title>By: Bethan</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1#comment-1081</link>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve bought .org for my website, yes. I&#039;m not sure it those domain names were available for the blog site. Jeremy at webs wonder- who helped build this site will be able to answer that question.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve bought .org for my website, yes. I&#8217;m not sure it those domain names were available for the blog site. Jeremy at webs wonder- who helped build this site will be able to answer that question.</p>
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		<title>By: Ponty boy</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1#comment-1080</link>
		<dc:creator>Ponty boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Couldnt you have used &#039;.com&#039; or &#039;.org&#039; ??</description>
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		<title>By: Bethan</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1#comment-1079</link>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, until I can get a .cym web address, this is the reality of web addresses.</description>
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		<title>By: Ponty boy</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/god-save-the-queen/comment-page-1#comment-1078</link>
		<dc:creator>Ponty boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;For those of us who are Welsh Republicans and Nationalists..&quot;

Says the Plaid AM with a &#039;.org.uk&#039; web address!! haha!!</description>
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<p>Says the Plaid AM with a &#8216;.org.uk&#8217; web address!! haha!!</p>
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