Sim?n, Its good to read the reply from you. I am not sure whether you are a real person in ANA's board or not. You have not identified your self to contact you. Your posting looks like you are a responsible person in ANA. Without giving real address to contact you, should I go to ANA's home page and hit randomly anyone? and refer to Sajha.com? I don't think that will work. So, would you kindly identify your position in ANA if your posting is genuine. If you don't want to identify here in Sajha.com, well, you may send your contact address (email) to me at eNepal atMark gmail.com Now, I did try a few times to register via ANA's membership and it was so disappointing that when I wrote all information and finally, clicked submit, everything gone dead. So, funny. When I visited DC this November in another forum's some get together, I met several peoples who are staying here in USA, and their frustation was that we simply have too many Nepali organizations and their frustration is that they have to attend so many get together to mean the same festival e.g. dashain tihar ... and pay membership fees to each of them and most importantly, the peoples I met complained that all these mushroomed societies could be working within an umbrella like ANA, but, the reason they can stand under one umbrella is because the peoples in top positions have created such a strong firewall that no one outside the current's officer's closed cirlce can penetrate or occupy or even serve their genuinely. I know someone who is one of the best ameature singer, when asked why don't you sing a song when some of those who sang were not that better compared you? Her answer was she tried a couple of times well in advance for few years, all the time she was declined that there are no slots for peoples outside the cirlce of peoples in exe.com. I hear the same thing happens with ANA and thats why these nuclear societies don't want to be integrated under the umbrella of ANA making ANA a pride of Nepalis in America. I might be wrong. But, the website of ANA does not seems to be convincing nor promising. It does not have any newsletter or any periodical stuffs to get connected to ANA's members? Newsletter is a great things to remain the ANA in close contact with its members? I am wondering whether ANA's exe.com borads are really unware of this mechanism or they are scared of increasing publicity such that many hard working and capable peoples compared to the current officers might want to serve there and the close control by current officers is lost forever? Why don't you have good Website, when all most all major orgnizations in USA have their website? especially Dispora of different countries. Website stuffs are already older than a decade? It looks ANA officers don't know the power of Website? I don't think thats true, I pessimistically assume that its to avoid peoples get interested in ANA's top positions? I am a new comer, neither I have interest nor in near future. But, friends who have been staying here for long time say that ANA means only in July 4 event. I want to see ANA make its website more promising and keep in touch with Nepalis in USA, then, I can have more confidence on what you said above or its officer bearers will write in public to save their faces. Otherwise, I will be pessimistic and I will vouch for overhaul of ANA to make it more widely accepted umbrella society of Nepalis in USA or north America.... GP