☀️ Summer is here, and so is Repair Cafe! We'll be at Great Falls Library THIS SATURDAY, June 6th, from 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!
**No knife sharpening at this event** - we are still trying to find a volunteer for knife sharpening, but we haven't found anyone yet, so we can't promise it this time.
#RightToRepair #RepairCafe #PlasticFreeDMV #ZeroWaste #SolarPunkSunday #FairfaxCounty #GreatFallsVA #Herndon #Reston #McLean #Dranesville
Good morning - I've updated our profile so it's time for another Volunteers Wanted post!
Right now we are in search of all roles (More here: https://volunteernow.volunteerfairfax.org/custom/1427/opp_details/191304 )
But in particular we would really like a knife sharpener! Do you know someone who would be willing to come out to Great Falls Library to help us with this? Please send them our way!
Knife sharpening typically runs from 10:30am to 12pm at our Cafe - if you're ready to pack up and leave at/after 12pm, you're welcome to do so. We also invite our volunteers to come early, at 10am, to have time to set up before doors open, but that's not a requirement.
Knife sharpening is our most popular service at Repair Cafes. We've had volunteers who have worked on machines with sanding belts, as well as ones that have worked with whetstones - we're not picky, if it works for you, it works for us.
Please boost! 🔃 ✅
#GreatFallsVA #GreatFalls #Dranesville #WolfTrap #Herndon #Reston #McLean
#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
Sunday, October 26th, 2025 @ Fairfax County, VA, USA
https://www.rovingsun.com/2025/10/26/fall-at-the-meadowlark-botanical-gardens/
#ACHotelReston #MeadowlarkBotanicalGardens #FairfaxCounty #NoVA #Virginia #USA #bird #WoodDuck #fallfoliage #Reston #ViennaVA #Leesburg #Frederick
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.
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.
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.
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.
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