Roy Anthony Cousins (born 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer, producer, and record label owner, known for being lead singer and co creator of The Royals, his productions of artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Prince Far I, Scientist, Winston Francis, Earl Sixteen, Devon Russell, Junior Reid, Don Carlos, Pablove Black, Ken Parker, Knowledge, The Gaylads, The Meditations, Prince Hammer and Cornell Campbell, and his record labels, Uhuru, Tamoki, Wambesi, Dove & Tamoki-Wambesi/Tamoki Wambesi Dove.

Biography
Cousins worked for the Jamaican Post Office for many years after he left school, and had formed his first vocal group in 1962, to attend the Junior Festival Competition. In 1965 he formed a vocal group(The Royals), whose first release by studio one was put out under the name The Tempests, and later as The Royals. Frustrated with his dealings with record labels, he started his own Uhuru label in 1969. This soon folded, but he returned with the Tamoki label in 1972 and the Wambesi label in 1974. He also began producing other artists, including Gregory Isaacs' "Way of Life" in 1974, which established the singer as a star.

In June 1977, Cousins left his Post Office job to concentrate full-time on music, resulting in 1978's Pick Up The Pieces album, a collection of tracks from Royals 1970s singles, which is now considered one of the great reggae albums. Its success led to a contract with Ballistic Records, licensed to United Artists, with two further Royals albums following. Cousins-produced dub albums also appeared (Freedom Fighters Dub and Liberated Dub).

In 1979, cataracts almost led to Cousins losing his sight, and after recovering, he began to concentrate on production, introducing the deejay Charlie Chaplin with a series of LPs, and producing artists such as Cornell Campbell, Earl 16, Naggo Morris, and The Meditations. Cousins produced Prince Far I's final album in 1983, Umkhonto We Sizwe, the chanter being fatally shot before it was finished. This prompted Cousins to emigrate to Liverpool, England, where he set up a record shop, Cousins Cove, and continues to release records on his Tamoki-Wambesi and Dove labels, both from his back-catalogue, and new recordings of visiting Jamaican artists. Another classic Cousins-produced track from this era is "Skanky Producer" which features the DJ Charlie Chaplin and Black Uhuru singers Don Carlos and Junior Reid.

References

External links
Roy Cousins at Roots Archives
Roy Cousins productions at ReggaeID
Roy Cousins at discogs.com

1949 births
Musicians from Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaican record producers
Jamaican reggae musicians
Living people

Roy Cousins


Al dente is a term used when cooking. It comes from Italian, and is used for pasta, rice, and sometimes vegetables. It means that the item (for example the spaghetti) are cooked, so that they are soft, but they are still firm to the bite. Usually, cooking something al dente involves a short cooking time. Commercial pasta often specifies the cooking time (for al dente).

A counter-example may be risotto: When preparing Italian-style risotto, the rice is usually cooked until it is totally soft.

References
Cooking

Al dente


Brian Head, at  high, is the highest peak on the Markagunt Plateau and in Iron County in southwestern Utah, United States. Brian Head Peak is located east of Cedar City and just north of Cedar Breaks National Monument in Dixie National Forest. The town of Brian Head at the western base of the mountain is the location of the Brian Head Ski Resort.

Brian Head has the name of a government surveyor. There is a Forest Service lookout on the peak that was built in 1934–1935, and there is also a road to the summit that can be driven in summer.

See also

 List of mountains in Utah

References

External links

Mountains of Utah
Mountains of Iron County, Utah
Dixie National Forest

Brian Head (mountain)


The Beach Club Residences (formerly, Calhoun Beach Club) is an apartment community, health club, and commercial center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, just across Lake Street from its namesake Lake Calhoun (now called Bde Maka Ska). Its founders intended the club to meet their residential, recreational, and entertainment needs in one building. The original building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 23, 2003.  It is considered significant as a rare local example of an apartment hotel, a distinctive urban housing option of American cities in the 1920s.

History
Construction of the building began in 1928, but it was delayed for approximately 18 years due to the Great Depression. After World War II construction was completed, and it became a lively social club. Financial hard times in the early 1950s forced the club into bankruptcy.  The building was converted to a hotel in 1954 and was marketed as a place for social events such as proms, parties, luncheons, banquets, and wedding receptions.  The upper floors were converted into fashionable apartments. WTCN (now KARE television and WWTC radio) moved its radio and TV studios to the second and third floors around that time.  Staples of WTCN programming, such as the children's program Lunch with Casey with Roger Awsumb, Matinee Movie with Mel Jass and All Star Wrestling with Verne Gagne, aired live in the building. From 1963 to 1972, the property was renamed Calhoun Beach Manor, operating as a home for the elderly.

In 1977 the building was restored to its intended use as a sports and social club. The handball and squash courts and the swimming pool were restored, and the club installed tennis courts, steam rooms, saunas, sunrooms, and a jogging track. At that time, the lobby was restored in an Art Deco style. Later, in the 1980s, the club added more facilities, such as an aerobics studio, volleyball and basketball courts, and additional exercise equipment.

In 1997 a tower addition was designed by KKE architects and subsequently constructed.

In 2001 the property was renovated and converted to luxury apartment homes.

The original building – the oldest high-rise residential building outside of downtown Minneapolis' core – was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 23, 2003.

In 2020, the owner and operator of the luxury apartment community updated the building's name to The Beach Club Residences

The Beach Club Residences
The Beach Club Residences community is located in the Uptown-Lakes area, overlooking Bde Maka Ska, Lake of the Isles, Cedar Lake and downtown Minneapolis, MN. The community consists of 332 apartment homes, divided among 57 different floorplans. Apartment homes vary from studios up to 4-bedrooms, which range from  to . The property is currently owned and operated by Air Communities.

Calhoun Beach Club Commercial Tenants
The Beach Club includes 11 retails spaces, seven of which are currently occupied by the Urban Eatery restaurant, Sash Salon, Strauman Holistic Chiropractic, Uptime Nutrition, D'Amico Catering and Sales, Beck and Tysver, and the Calhoun Beach Health Club.

The  Calhoun Beach Health Club features high-tech fitness equipment, a full range of exercise and fitness classes including Pilates, ballroom dancing, strength-building, yoga and a running club.  In addition, The Beach Club has indoor and outdoor pools, restaurants, a full-service salon, fitness classes, outdoor recreational equipment, and a tanning salon.

Gallery

References

External links

 Calhoun Beach Club Apartments

Apartment buildings in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places in Minneapolis
Residential buildings completed in 1946
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota

Calhoun Beach Club


Spark printing is an obsolete form of computer printing and before that fax and chart recorder printing which uses a special paper coated with a conductive layer over a contrasting backing, originally black carbon over white paper but later aluminium over black paper.  Printing on this paper uses pulses of electric current to burn away spots of the conductive layer.  Typically, one or more electrodes are swept across the page perpendicular to the direction of paper motion to form a raster of potential burnt spots.

Western Union developed the paper for this printing technology in the late 1940s, under the trademark "Teledeltos".  The Western Union "Deskfax" fax machine, announced in 1948, was one of the first printers to use this technology.

Spark printing was a simple and inexpensive technology. The print quality was relatively poor, but at a time when conventional printers cost hundreds of pounds, spark printers' sub-£100 price was a major selling point. The other major downside is that they can only print onto special metallised paper and such an electrosensitive paper is no longer widely available, but is still sold as of 2020.

Models

By 1979, the Comprint 912 was widely advertised as being faster, quieter, and less expensive than competitive matrix printers, with its "special aluminized 'silver paper'" being superior to ordinary paper, and "on those rare occasions when you really do need a plain bond paper copy, just run your Comprint 912 printout through your plain bond copy machine and you've got it."

The Sinclair ZX Printer, introduced in November 1981 for the low-end ZX81 (and later for the  ZX Spectrum) home computers used the spark printing method, and retailed for .

In the early 1980s, Casio released a "Mini Electro Printer", the FP-10 for some of their scientific calculators.It used Casio CMP-36x5 paper.

The Hewlett Packard 9120A, which attached to the top of the HP-9100A/B calculator, also used the sparking technique.

Tandy / Radio Shack TRS-80 Screen Printer, Quick Printer, and Quick Printer II all used this same method and special paper.

The Sharp Corporation ELSIMATE EL-8151 portable calculator had a built in spark printer which used silver-colored paper. It is known to be compatible with the Casio CMP-36x5 paper used by the FP-10, despite the Casio paper having a slightly larger core diameter.

Variants

A different spark printer implementation propelled dry toner from a tiny hole in the end of a glass rod, using a high-voltage spark between the platen and print head. The glass toner rod held a solid mass of toner, pushed toward the ejection tip by a spring. This had the advantage of printing onto plain paper, but the disadvantage of the toner not being cured to the paper, and thus easily smudged. Similar to the Sinclair printer, this printer had only one stylus (the toner rod), since the entire plate behind the paper served as the other spark electrode. The printer could only print one line of pixels at a time.

References

Non-impact printing

Spark printing


Scinax kennedyi is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.
It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, and pastureland.
It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

kennedyi
Amphibians of Colombia
Amphibians of Venezuela
Amphibians described in 1973
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Scinax kennedyi


A dirndl [ˈdɪʁndl̩] is a type of dress worn by women in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and South Tyrol. It is made to look like the traditional clothing that peasants from the Alps used to wear. Originally the term Dirndl meant girl in Bavarian. Now it can mean either the dress or a girl. It was also called a Dirndlgewand. In the 1800s servant girls wore a very similar dress. They were very plain. A heavy, often dark colored dress was worn in winter. It had a long sleeve dirndl blouse and thick apron to go with it. In summer a light version was worn. Summer dresses were worn with a short puffed-sleeve dirndl blouse. Different styles were worn in different regions. The bow on the apron is tied on the left (she is single) or the right side (she is not single).

References

Other websites
  Oktoberfest Dirndl Dress: The Bow
 How to wear a dirndl

Dresses

Dirndl


Jared Michael Rushton (born March 3, 1974) is an American former actor. He is best known for his roles in several films from the late 1980s, including Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Big, and Overboard. He has been nominated for two Saturn Awards and two Young Artist Awards. He is also known for his roles in Pet Sematary Two and as Chip on the sitcom Roseanne. Rushton also starred in A Cry in the Wild.

Early life
Rushton was born in Provo, Utah. His first acting job was as a rocker in a "Barbie and the Rockers" commercial. His mother, Monica Rushton, assisted him on the set of Big. He also starred in the movie A Cry in the Wild, which was based on the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, and appeared briefly as a reluctant father-to-be on the CBS drama Northern Exposure.

Career
Rushton began his career at age twelve as Richie in an episode of Tales from the Darkside. He also appeared in another show, Cagney & Lacey, and a television film, Top Kids. In 1987, he played his first major role, as Kurt Russell's character's son in the film Overboard. The next year he starred in Lady in White as Donald, and as Tom Hanks's character's friend Billy in Big. Rushton, who is a natural blond, dyed his hair red for the film.

After the success of Big, Rushton appeared on an episode of Murder, She Wrote as Travis Harmon. He later appeared as Chip Lang, Becky's boyfriend on the television sitcom Roseanne for three episodes. After this, Rushton was cast as Ron Thompson in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

After finishing Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Rushton appeared on an episode of Midnight Caller and filmed A Cry in the Wild as Brian Robeson, a film based on the book Hatchet. In 1992, Rushton guest-starred in an episode of Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories. He also had a starring role in Pet Sematary Two, as the school bully, Clyde Parker, a main enemy of Edward Furlong`s character. He also guest-starred in the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode entitled "Bad Water".

Filmography

Television
 Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family - Seth Kesseling (1 episode, 2000)
  Cover Me - USA (short title)
 The Line (2000) TV episode - Seth Kesseling
 Cracker: Mind Over Murder - Bill Lane (1 episode, 1999)
 a.k.a. Cracker - USA (original title)
 a.k.a. Cracker: The Complete Series - International (English title) (DVD box title)
 Best Boys (1999) TV episode - Bill Lane
 Dead Man's Walk (miniseries) - Wesley Buttons (2 episodes, 1996)
 Episode #1.3 (1996) TV episode - Wesley Buttons
 Episode #1.1 (1996) TV episode - Wesley Buttons
 ER - Andy Bohlmeyer (1 episode, 1994)
 ER Confidential (1994) TV episode - Andy Bohlmeyer
 The Yarn Princess (1994) (TV) - Peter Thomas
 Northern Exposure (1993)
 Heal Thyself - TV episode - Phil
 CBS Schoolbreak Special - Alex Raymond (1 episode, 1993)
 Other Mothers (1993) TV episode - Alex Raymond
 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Calvin Harding (1 episode, 1993)
 Bad Water (1993) TV episode - Calvin Harding
 Life Goes On - Ziggy (1 episode, 1992)
 Babes in the Woods (1992) TV episode - Ziggy
 Camp Wilder (1 episode, 1992)
 The First Kiss (1992) TV episode - David
 Where's Rodney? (1990) (TV) - Rodney Barnes
 Midnight Caller - Sylver Jensen (1 episode, 1990)
 Planes (1990) TV episode - Sylver Jensen
 Roseanne - Chip Lang (3 episodes, 1988-1989)
 Becky's Choice (1989) TV episode - Chip Lang
 Dan's Birthday Bash (1989) TV episode - Chip Lang
 Lovers' Lane (1988) TV episode - Chip Lang
 Murder, She Wrote - Travis Harmon (1 episode, 1988)
 Coal Miner's Slaughter (1988) TV episode - Travis Harmon
 Top Kids (1987) (TV)
 Cagney & Lacey - Peter Wade (1 episode, 1986)
 The Marathon (1986) TV episode - Peter Wade
 Tales from the Darkside - Richie (1 episode, 1986)
 A Serpent's Tooth (1986) TV episode - Richie

Movies
 Pet Sematary Two (1992) - Clyde Parker
 A Cry in the Wild (1990) - Brian Robeson
 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) - Ronald 'Ron' Thompson
 a.k.a. Microkids! - Japan (English title)
 Big (1988) - Billy Kopecki
 Lady in White (1988) - Donald
 Overboard (1987) - Charlie Proffitt

Self - video
 Big: Chemistry of a Classic (2007) (V) - Himself

Self - TV
 Prop Culture (2020) Himself, Episode: "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
 Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories (1991) (TV)

External links

1974 births
20th-century American male actors
American male child actors
American male film actors
Living people
Musicians from Provo, Utah

Jared Rushton


The National Committee for 4 and 5 May () is a Dutch authority for war monuments and memorials since 1987.

The committee is best known for its annual organization of the Remembrance of the Dead observances on May 4, and also its organization of music festivals to celebrate freedom on May 5, Liberation Day (Dutch: "Bevrijdingsdag"). Prior to its founding, the various observances were all organized locally with little or no central coordination. The organization now keeps a database of all war memorials and monuments erected over time throughout the kingdom, and this includes objects in former state-controlled territories. Since starting the May 4th Amsterdam dodenherdenking, located on the spot where civilians were killed during the May 7th 1945 Dam Square shooting, efforts to widen the focus to be more inclusive of all war casualties have continued. The committee was founded in 1987 to preserve the various recorded events and also to uncover lesser known stories of national importance. To this day memorials are still created to honor WWII events, but also of national engagements since that time.

Dutch War Memorial Database
The database of war memorials (Dutch: "oorlogsmonument") is an ongoing effort to capture metadata about actual monuments and memorials. The best known monument is the National Monument, erected in 1956 on the Dam.

See also
 National Remembrance 15 August 1945

References

 Official website

Government agencies of the Netherlands
History of the Netherlands

National Committee for 4 and 5 May


"No-One Driving" is a 1980 song by UK artist John Foxx, and was released as a single in March 1980. It was the second single release from the Metamatic album, after "Underpass". The song is typical of Foxx's musical output of the time, featuring a Ballardian dystopian scenario involving an automobile in the lyrics, with music produced using electronic instruments (synthesisers, drum machines, electronic percussion) only.

The single was released as a limited edition double 7" disc with three accompanying tracks, and as a single 7" both as two track and three track discs with the same catalogue number.
The single version is slightly different from the album version in sound mix and lyrics; the line "..someone's gone liquid in the sheets.." on the original (album) version is replaced by "..someone's gone missing in the sheets..".

The record entered the UK Singles Chart at no. 32, remaining at the same position for a further week before dropping down. This was the final single release from Metamatic.

The single version is featured on the John Foxx compilation albums Modern Art - The Best of John Foxx (2001) and Glimmer - Best of John Foxx (2008). The latter also includes an "early version" of "No-One Driving". Live versions of the song are also included on the albums: Live From A Room (As Big As A City) (2006) and A New Kind of Man (2008).

The song remains a John Foxx standard and one of his best known songs and is performed live to this day, as John Foxx And The Maths.

Single release track listings
7" single disc (two track version)
 "No-One Driving"
 "Glimmer"

7" single disc (three track version)
 "No-One Driving"
 "Glimmer"
 "Mr. No"

7" double disc (gatefold sleeve)
 "No-One Driving"
 "Glimmer"
 "This City"
 "Mr. No"

7" German release (different sleeve artwork)
 "No-One Driving"
 "Metal Beat"

7" promo double disc cat. no. VS 338 A5 DJ (gatefold sleeve with sticker)
 "No-One Driving" (2.53 edit)
 "Glimmer"
 "This City"
 "Mr. No"

"This City" features on the compilation albums "Assembly" and "Metatronic", while "Glimmer" appears on the eponymous compilation album.
All three B-sides were released together for the first time on the 2001 CD re-issue of the Metamatic album, and later on the 2007 re-issue.

Promo video
The promo video is slightly shorter than the single version at 2:53, with the second verse and chorus edited out. It features Foxx dressed in the typical grey suit jerkily dancing and miming to the song, accompanied in some scenes by two keyboard players. The video was included on the Metatronic DVD although does not feature on John Foxx's official YouTube page. Parts of the video were however used for the 2010 "Underpass" video edit by KARBORN, which is featured.

References

Sources and further reading
Metamatic - the official John Foxx website (discography section)
Quiet City - the music of John Foxx (discography section)
No-One Driving at discogs.com
Metamatic album at discogs.com

1980 singles
John Foxx songs
Synth-pop songs
Songs about cars
Songs written by John Foxx
1980 songs
Virgin Records singles

No-One Driving


Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (also known simply as Puzzle Agent) is an adventure/puzzle game by Telltale Games, in collaboration with Graham Annable. It is the first game to come out of Telltale's pilot project. It was released on June 30, 2010. The game was influenced by the works of David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick and the Coen brothers (most notably Twin Peaks and  Fargo). This is one of two Telltale Games titles that have an original character, the other being Telltale Texas Hold'em.
A WiiWare release of the game for the Wii was planned but eventually cancelled.

Gameplay
The game structure resembles a linear adventure game – the player doesn't have an inventory, but can traverse into dialog trees with other characters. Some items or choices of dialog result in puzzles to be solved, although in some cases the puzzle has no consequence in the game's progress. The types of puzzles vary from jigsaw through mathematics to logic puzzles. Each of them has a basic short description about the objective of the puzzle, while some have a basic set of rules and conditions that help the player deduce the solution. The player can request three hints for each puzzle, and each hint costs the player a piece of chewing gum – gum is on shortage in the town, as the hotel clerk explains, but Nelson can collect pieces of used gum he finds at each location. The puzzles don't automatically approve the players solution, even if the player provides the correct answer – Nelson must send the answer back to HQ where it is either approved or rejected. If the solution is approved, the player is given a score depending on how many hints he used and how many failed attempts he had (the latter is represented in taxpayer dollars), and an optional further explanation is provided on how the puzzle can be solved.

Plot
The game begins as Agent Nelson Tethers, the sole member of the Puzzle Research Division of the FBI, is given his first field assignment. The factory that produces the erasers used by the White House has stopped production; any attempts to contact the factory are met with bizarre puzzles. Tethers must visit the factory in Scoggins, Minnesota and get it running again.

In Scoggins, Tethers is told that the factory was closed after an unidentified accident, and that the factory's foreman, Isaac Davner, hasn't been seen since. Further investigation is impossible because the factory is sealed by a complex lock requiring three keys.

Tethers' search for the keys and for additional clues to Isaac's whereabouts is hindered by mysterious gnome-like creatures called the Hidden People by the townspeople. The Hidden People seem to be supported by a local lodge called the Brotherhood of Scoggins. The lodge head, Bjorn, tells Tethers that the Hidden People have "chosen" Isaac, though he is unable to explain exactly what that means.

Finally, Tethers gains entry to the factory. Inside, he finds Isaac, driven mad by puzzles given to him by the Hidden People. Tethers tries to rescue Isaac, but the Hidden People drag Isaac off before he can be saved. The factory starts back up soon afterward. Back in Washington, Tethers is congratulated for his work, and is reminded that the disappearance of Isaac is a matter for local law enforcement.

The story continues in the sequel, Puzzle Agent 2.

References

External links
 Puzzle Agent at GameRankings
 Puzzle Agent at Metacritic

2010 video games
Adventure games
Cancelled Wii games
IOS games
MacOS games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Puzzle video games
Telltale Games games
Indie games
Video games about police officers
Video games based on comics
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Jared Emerson-Johnson
Video games set in Minnesota
Windows games

Puzzle Agent


Francis Alexander Durivage (1814–1881) was an American author.

He was a contributor of poems, humorous articles, short stories, and sketches for magazines, often written under the pen name 'Old Un.' In connection with W. S. Chase he translated Alphonse de Lamartine's History of the Revolution of 1848. At a later date he issued, with George P. Burnham, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Young Un," "Stray Subjects arrested and bound over, being the Fugitive Offspring of the Old Un and the Young Un that have been lying around loose, and are now tied up for Fast Keeping" (Boston, 1848).

He was the author of several plays and was for a time co-editor of Ballou's Pictorial. In addition to the works previously mentioned, he published a "Cyclopaedia of History" (Hartford, 1836), and Life Scenes from the World around Us (Boston, 1853).

External links

American male writers
19th century in Boston
1814 births
1881 deaths
Writers from Boston

Francis Alexander Durivage


Luosi zhuan  () is a traditional dish of Beijing cuisine.

Preparation
The traditional culinary method of this dish begins with the preparation of flour, sesame paste, oil, salt, baking soda and Sichuan pepper. The ingredients are mixed together and cut into small pieces.  The small pieces of dough would be pressed into flat pieces and sesame paste would be applied and then rolled together, compressed, and cut open from the middle.  The dough would be held at one end and twisted at the other end, and then pressed down. The dish is then baked.

Beijing cuisine

Luosi zhuan


Casineria was a tetrapod which lived 340 million years ago (mya) in the Mississippian. It was a small animal, length about 15 centimeters.

It lived in what was then a fairly dry environment in what is now Scotland. It had a mosaic of 'basal' (= primitive) amphibian and 'derived' (= advanced) amniote characters.

Casineria was at or very near the origin of the amniotes. It may have been one of the very first true amniotes. The only fossil lacks key elements: most of the skull and the whole lower body is missing. This makes exact analysis difficult.

Casineria was an insectivore. This earliest amniote had five fingers with claws on each hand, and marks the earliest known clawed foot.

Its name, Casineria, is a latin version of Cheese Bay, the site near Edinburgh, where it was found.

Discovery
In 1992, an amateur fossil collector spotted the remains of this four-legged creature on the shore of Cheese Bay, Scotland. For the next five years, the fossil waited at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh while researchers focused on other projects. In 1997, work began to expose the remainder of the fossil from the surrounding matrix of stone.

The work revealed that the animal probably lived in an environment much drier than previously understood. The findings were first reported in 1999.

Phylogenetic relationship
Casineria shows features that ties it in with early tetrapods, notably a generally gracile (slim) build with light leg-bones, unfused ankles and toes ending in claws. This would enable the animal to use their feet actively in traction, rather than as holdfasts. This indicates a mainly terrestrial lifestyle. These traits shows it was closely related to amniotes.

With its advanced features, Casineria may have been one of the very first true amniotes, that is, egg-layers before the split between Synapsids and Sauropsids. Casineria pushes back the origin of amniote lineages much further than was previously realized.

Casineria and its relatives were perhaps the first vertebrates to live and reproduce on land.

References

Stem tetrapods

Casineria