#Introduction: Hello from the #DMV! 🌟

Resonance Improv Alliance is a nonprofit project serving the Northern Virginia community.

Based in #Reston and #Fairfax, we use improvisational theater as a tool for both performance and outreach—helping people connect, laugh, and support one another through life's challenges. 🎭

Excited to find our niche here!

#Improv #Nonprofit #NoVA #TysonsVA #ArtsOutreach #ResonanceImprov #Community

Fall at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

After having dinner in Reston and staying overnight at the AC Hotel, we visited the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in the morning. We saw the preparations for the Winter Walk of Lights as well as various flowers and a few birds. After, we had lunch in Vienna and visited the Leesburg Premium Outlets before returning home via Frederick.

Roving Sun

Fall at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

After having dinner in Reston and staying overnight at the AC Hotel, we visited the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in the morning. We saw the preparations for the Winter Walk of Lights as well as various flowers and a few birds. After, we had lunch in Vienna and visited the Leesburg Premium Outlets before returning home via Frederick.

https://www.rovingsun.com/2025/10/26/fall-at-the-meadowlark-botanical-gardens/

For #ThrowbackThursday here's a shot from my very first full day in America back in 2011. We were staying near Reston, Virginia and went for a walk around the city early in the morning. I liked the autumnal colours and symmetry on this Art Deco era building.

#Photography #Architecture #ArtDeco #Symmetry #TBT #Reston #Virginia

Dev Technology Group of #Reston Virginia awarded a $65 Million #DHS services contract shortly after #DJT admin purges leadership of many internal #HomelandSecurity depts, particularly affecting female staffers. The contract is for managing data about #SEVIS, a data monitoring program used to track US #students.

https://www.hstoday.us/industry/industry-news/dev-technology-group-awarded-64m-dhs-ice-five-year-contract/

Dev Technology Group Awarded $64M DHS ICE Five-Year Contract - HS Today

Dev Technology Group, a member of the Government Technology & Services Coalition (GTSC), has secured a five-year contract valued at $63,612,720 with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

HSToday
Stopped by Petsmart Reston for aquarium supplies (j/k, it’s always cat food) and see the cat adoption center is housing Hurricane Helene refugees. If Figaro hadn’t already locked in his spot with us, Jesse here might’ve had a shot at joining the clowder. If anyone’s thinking about adopting a cat, now’s the time to find one in need.
#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Reston #RestonVA #HurricaneHelene
I Entered My Book In The Best Indie Book Award. Wish Me Luck! via @IndieBookAward #SuburbanTroublemaker, #Reston #NewAuthor https://bestindiebookaward.com/Submit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IARTG #author #IAN1
About the Best Indie Book Awards - Self-Published Writing Contest - Indie Literary Awards - Best Indie Book Award Contest

Annual International Indie Book Awards competition recognizing self-published and independently published authors.

Best Indie Book Award Contest

Non #Ebola #Filoviruses: Potential #Threats to Global #Health #Security https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/8/1179

In this #review, we summarize current #knowledge on non-Ebola filoviruses (#Bombali virus, #Bundibugyo virus, #Reston virus, #Sudan virus, #TaiForest virus, #Marburg virus, #Ravn virus, #Lloviu virus, ... and Dehong virus) and suggest some strategies to accelerate specific #countermeasure development.

Non-Ebola Filoviruses: Potential Threats to Global Health Security

Filoviruses are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses often associated with severe and highly lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with case fatality rates as high as 90%. Of the known filoviruses, Ebola virus (EBOV), the prototype of the genus Orthoebolavirus, has been a major public health concern as it frequently causes outbreaks and was associated with an unprecedented outbreak in several Western African countries in 2013–2016, affecting 28,610 people, 11,308 of whom died. Thereafter, filovirus research mostly focused on EBOV, paying less attention to other equally deadly orthoebolaviruses (Sudan, Bundibugyo, and Taï Forest viruses) and orthomarburgviruses (Marburg and Ravn viruses). Some of these filoviruses have emerged in nonendemic areas, as exemplified by four Marburg disease outbreaks recorded in Guinea, Ghana, Tanzania, and Equatorial Guinea between 2021 and 2023. Similarly, the Sudan virus has reemerged in Uganda 10 years after the last recorded outbreak. Moreover, several novel bat-derived filoviruses have been discovered in the last 15 years (Lloviu virus, Bombali virus, Měnglà virus, and Dehong virus), most of which are poorly characterized but may display a wide host range. These novel viruses have the potential to cause outbreaks in humans. Several gaps are yet to be addressed regarding known and emerging filoviruses. These gaps include the virus ecology and pathogenicity, mechanisms of zoonotic transmission, host range and susceptibility, and the development of specific medical countermeasures. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on non-Ebola filoviruses (Bombali virus, Bundibugyo virus, Reston virus, Sudan virus, Tai Forest virus, Marburg virus, Ravn virus, Lloviu virus, Měnglà virus, and Dehong virus) and suggest some strategies to accelerate specific countermeasure development.

MDPI
#tikithai is kinda bit much for me rn, ngl #reston #aftermidnight

Another shot of Lake Anne Village with Halo posing in front of the Virginia is for Lovers giant LOVE sign, all decked out for Pride. The sign is sitting at the foot of the lake, which is Lake Anne's namesake, surrounded by outdoor shops and dining in contemporary 1960s architecture, looking just the same as I remember it did in the 70s when I was a little kid.

#Virginia #NorthernVirginia #Reston #LakeAnne #pride #DogsOfMastodon #Mastodog